Anadarko’s 7th well drilled offshore Mozambique has successfully appraised previous discoveries Lagosta and Camarao. The Lagosta-2 appraisal well, located about 7km north of the Lagosta discovery and 8.5 km south of the Camarao well, encountered 37m (777 total net ft) of natural gas pay in multiple zones.
This is the best well to date and the results support the company’s recoverable resource estimate of 15trillion to 30-plus trillion cu.ft of gas in the discovery area.
A second deepwater drillship, the Deepwater Millennium, has arrived in Mozambique to begin an accelerated testing programme that will include installing observation gauges and conducting several drill-stem tests. Andaarko said it was still on track to reach a final investment decision for this project in 2013.”