Total在Antelope气田初步钻探评价井

French company Total has spudded an appraisal well at the Antelope gas field in Papua New Guinea as the company looks to shore up reserves on the western flank of the field.Joint venture partner Oil Search revealed in its monthly drilling report that the Antelope-7 well had spudded in PRL 15 on Wednesday.The well is being drilled to test for reservoir presence and definition on the western flank of the Antelope field.Antelope-7 will be drilled through the Orubadi shale formation to test for presence of the primary Antelope reservoir at a planned total depth of roughly 2300 metres which is expected to take 60 days to reach.Total is developing the Elk-Antelope fields in Papua New Guinea which, according to Oil Search, are estimated to hold a combined 6.4 trillion cubic feet of gas.The two fields will provide feedstock for either the greenfield Papua LNG project, or the expansion of the ExxonMobil-led PNG LNG project.