The drilling activity is being performed by the Ocean Nomad semi submersible rig and the full program is expected to take approximately 45 days.
The block, located on the East Shetland Platform, west of the North Viking Graben, is the company’s first awarded license in the UK Continental Shelf. Nautical Petroleum holds a 35% equity share in this block and is the operator.
In April, the company said that the appraisal well will assess the southern extent of the existing hydrocarbon accumulation confirmed by the successful 9/2-1A and 9/2b-2 wells. The key purpose of this well will be to recover cores and obtain fluid samples, with the aim of collecting data that will be used to optimize the planned field development.
