Well Spud (5700W)
01 February 2012 - 6:46PM
UK Regulatory
TIDMBOR
RNS Number : 5700W
Borders & Southern Petroleum plc
01 February 2012
1 February 2012
Borders & Southern Petroleum plc
("B&S" or "the Company")
Darwin Prospect - 61/17-1 Well Spud
Borders & Southern Petroleum plc is pleased to announce that
their exploration well 61/17-1 was spudded on 31(st) January 2012.
The well is located approximately 140 km south of the Falkland
Islands. B&S is the operator of the well, holding a 100%
interest in licence PL018. It is the first of a two well
exploration programme.
The well is designed to test the Darwin East prospect, a fault /
dip closed structure with a Lower Cretaceous sandstone reservoir
target. The well will investigate geophysical attributes that
include a flat spot, amplitude conformance to structure and an AVO
anomaly.
It is anticipated that operations will take about 45 days. A
further announcement will be made once the well has reached total
depth and the wireline logs have been run and their interpretation
completed.
For further information please visit www.bordersandsouthern.com
or contact:
Howard Obee, Chief Executive
Borders & Southern Petroleum plc
Tel: 020 7661 9348
Katherine Roe / Brett Jacobs
Panmure Gordon (UK) Limited
Tel: 020 7459 3600
Simon Hudson
Tavistock Communications
Tel: 020 7920 3150
Notes:
Borders & Southern Petroleum plc is an oil & gas
exploration company listed on the London Stock Exchange AIM (BOR).
The Company is focused on frontier or emerging basins where there
is potential to identify and commercialise high value prospects.
Its project in the Falkland Islands comprises five Production
Licences (100% interest) in the South Falkland Basin covering an
area of nearly 20,000 square kilometres. The Company has acquired
2,862 km of 2D seismic and 1,492 sqkm of 3D seismic. It is
commencing its first drilling campaign.
This information is provided by RNS
The company news service from the London Stock Exchange
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