By Razak Musah Baba
LONDON--Cairn Energy PLC (CNE.LN) and its joint venture partners
have plugged and abandoned the SNE-1 well in Senegal and plans are
now underway to appraise the discovery next year.
Cairn Energy said it has completed operations on the SNE-1 well
and "having discovered oil in the upper clastic target, no
hydrocarbons were subsequently encountered in the deeper target of
karstified and fractured Lower Cretaceous shelf carbonates.
"Following completion of logging operations the well will be
plugged and abandoned," the company said.
Cairn has a 40% working interest in three blocks offshore
Senegal (Sangomar Deep, Sangomar Offshore and Rufisque),
ConocoPhillips has a 35% working interest, FAR Ltd. a 15% working
interest and Petrosen, the national oil company of Senegal,
10%.
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