Tower Resources, oil company, announced that it will delay its Cameroon offshore drilling plans, due to the need for additional site preparation at the well location. As previously reported, Tower is in the final stages of planning the NJOM3 well, yet, the Company received additional data which indicate that further site preparation work will be required before the rig is moved to site.
Specifically, the company plans to drill the NJOM3 well in the Thali license to a total depth of 1,100 meters intersecting at least three reservoir zones already identified by the NJOM1B and NJOM2 discovery wells drilled on the Njonji field by the previous operator Total.
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For the drilling operations the company employed Topaz Driller jack-up drilling rig from Vantage Drilling, and it last month said it was expected to spud the NJOM3 well in the last week of May.
However, as Tower Resources informed, on Wednesday, May 8, it received data from the original Total wells at NJOM1 and NJOM2, which indicate that further site preparation work will be required before the rig is moved to site.
In light of the above, the company stated
Therefore the Company has agreed with Vantage to move the planned mobilisation of the Topaz Driller to July 2019 instead of late May 2019, in order to allow sufficient time for the additional site preparation work to be completed. This is still within the original date range contemplated by the rig contract, and well within the license extension period agreed last year.
