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Cairn Hits Potential Discovery Offshore Senegal; More Analysis Needed
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Cairn reported results from its SNE North-1 exploration well offshore Senegal. The well encountered oil and gas in the primary objective and oil in the deeper secondary objective, in a separate accumulation to the SNE field.
- ~24m of gross hydrocarbon column across three intervals
- ~11m net condensate and gas in high quality reservoir in primary objective
Further work is being undertaken to establish the potential commerciality of this discovery and to integrate the results with the block wide data gathered to date.
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