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Global E&P Briefs

A to a cumulative thickness

Signi? cant

NEWS of approximately 70m at a hit for W&T

W&T Offshore has made a depth of about 4850m through “signi? cant discovery” at the appraisal drilling in the

Ewing Banks 954 A-8 explor- BM-ES-23 concession, which atory well in the deepwater is 115 km off Espírito Santo

Gulf of Mexico. The EW 954 state in southeastern Brazil,

A-8 well penetrated a total at 1800-2000m water depth.

of 150ft MD of hydrocarbon

F

Furgo wins pay contained in two sands.

Fortuna survey

Completion operations are currently underway. Fol- Ophir has contracted Fugro

E lowing facility tie-in, ? rst for a survey program at the production is expected dur- Fortuna project offshore ing Q1 2016. W&T said that Equatorial Guinea. Fugro will it anticipates producing the deploy three of its specialist

B A well from the two zones at a vessels – Fugro Searcher, Fu-

C restrained gross rate of ap- gro Scout and Fugro Frontier proximately 2300 boe/d. – to perform autonomous un- derwater vehicle (AUV) sur-

B

Murphy to P&A veys as well as geotechnical,

Thunder Bird

E

Murphy Oil encountered Bay du Nord appraisals advance

Canada’s Husky Energy announced that the ? rm along with 75ft of hydrocarbon pay at its

D

Thunder Bird sidetrack well its partner Statoil plan to advance appraisal work on the Bay in Mississippi Canyon Block du Nord oil discovery o