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Falklands' oil industry re-spuds Isobel Deep reservoir
The well is located on licence PL004a, in which FOGL has a 40% working interest, and lies approx 4 km away from the 14/20-1 Isobel Deep oil discovery 
The Elaine/Isobel fan complex, based on the operator’s estimates, has multiple reservoir targets and gross, mean un-risked resources of 400m barrels of oil. 
“Finding oil in the original Isobel Deep well was very encouraging and the Isobel 2 well location will further evaluate this discovery” said CEO Tim Bushell Falkland Oil and Gas Limited, FOGL, one of several international companies involved in the Falklands' oil industry, announced on Monday that the 14/20 Isobel 2 well was spudded by Premier Oil as operator on Saturday, 21 November.
The well is located on licence PL004a, in which FOGL has a 40% working interest, and lies approximately 4 km away from the 14/20-1 Isobel Deep oil discovery. The well will target the Isobel Deep reservoir and is a re-drill of the 14/20-1 well drilled earlier this year, which failed to reach Total Depth owing to operational issues.
The well will test the F3 fan systems, which are mapped as entering the basin from the south east margin and comprise a sequence of stacked reservoirs. In addition to Isobel Deep, the well will also penetrate four other fans within the complex, comprising: Elaine South, Isobel, Doreen and Irene.
The Elaine/Isobel fan complex, based on the operator’s estimates, has multiple reservoir targets and gross, mean un-risked resources of 400 million barrels of oil. The well is estimated to be completed in January 2016. FOGL is fully carried through the costs of this well by Premier Oil and Rockhopper Exploration.
“I am very pleased to announce the spud of Isobel 2, the final well in our 2015 exploration drilling program. Finding oil in the original Isobel Deep well was very encouraging and the Isobel 2 well location will further evaluate this discovery“ commented Tim Bushell, FOGL CEO.
He added that the well location also allows to explore four other fans and hence, provides an opportunity ”to assess the significant oil resource that may exist within the Isobel/Elaine complex.”
FOGL has extensive license areas to the North, South and East of the Falklands Islands.
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Read all comments“Premier puts Falklands oil drilling plan on hold”
Nov 25th, 2015 - 04:30 am 0November 2015
“http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/business/industries/naturalresources/article4612866.ece#
October 2015
Humpback well
“non-commercial quantities of oil and gas”
A few hours ago
Rockhopper is to buy Falkland Oil and Gas
The fiasco continues..
Ha Ha still clutching at straws.Far better to have one large company exploiting oil finds than minnows. Please try and keep up, as Premier has already finished the pre-Feed work and are just finalising the top end engineering. That is they have awarded the major contracts for building the FSPO but fine tuning the design. Never mind I am sure you do not understand. Anyway congratulations on electing a new government, let us hope that a new broom sweeps clean Eh!
Nov 25th, 2015 - 09:13 am 0@1
Nov 25th, 2015 - 07:06 pm 0I see, so does that mean the Falklands are now not running at a surplus without any oil?
How about Argentina? They running at a surplus yet?
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