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                         The company expects to spend a total of 221   incorporate new resources into Mexico’s oil
                         days on drilling and completion activities, with   reserves and stimulate the development of light
                         160 days of work on drilling, 60 days on comple-  crude fields in the south-eastern region of the
                         tion and six days on abandonment.    country.
                           The Pemex subsidiary is hoping to find light   Upstream Online noted that the AE-0149-
                         crude oil with a specific gravity of 38.9-39.3   M-Uchukil concession was close to Area 1, an
                         degrees API in the well. It will be targeting hori-  offshore block that is being developed by Italy’s
                         zons in the Kigmeridian late Jurassic/Creta-  Eni.
                         ceous era, and its chances of success have been   The Italian major began early production at
                         estimated at 25%. Popoca-1EXP’s prospective   Miztón, one of the three oilfields within Area 1,
                         resources at risk mean have been calculated at   in 2019 and installed the Miamte MV 34, a new-
                         68mn barrels of oil equivalent (boe).  build floating production, storage and off-load-
                           In its authorisation, CNH said it hoped   ing (FPSO) vessel, at the block earlier this year to
                         the Popoca-1EXP drilling project would help   ramp up production. ™



                                                         CUBA
       Melbana Energy spuds Zapato-1 at Block 9






                         AUSTRALIA’S Melbana Energy revealed ear-  at the surface.
                         lier this week that it had spudded the Zapato-1   The Australian company did not say when it
                         exploration well at Block 9, its contract area   expected to finish drilling Zapato-1 or how deep
                         onshore Cuba.                        the well would be.
                           The company said in a statement that it had   According to previous reports, Melbana has
                         begun sinking the well within the framework of   already carried out exploration drilling work at
                         a two-well drilling programme on May 21. Zap-  another section of Block 9. The company spud-
                         ato-1 is slated to test a target that has a prospec-  ded the Alameda-1 well last year and made an
                         tive resource (best estimate) of 95mn barrels of   unexpected oil find at the relatively shallow
                         crude oil, it reported.              depth of 454 metres while also encountering
                           More specifically, Melbana said it had deter-  crude and natural gas within deeper horizons.
                         mined that the well was likely to encounter the   It has identified the Marti structure as a target of
                         Zapato structure, “with nearly 1,000 metres of   interest within the Alameda field.
                         vertical relief.” Zapato appears to be the primary   Melbana has a 30% stake in Block 9 and is
                         structure of – and, therefore, the primary source   serving as operator of the project. It is devel-
                         of – the crude oil found in Motembo, a shallow   oping the contract area in co-operation with
                         field discovered in the late 1800s. That field was   Angola’s national oil company (NOC) Sonangol,
                         reported to contain very light crude with a spe-  which acquired a 70% stake in the project via a
                         cific gravity equivalent to 50-64.5 degrees API   farm-in deal in 2020.





























                                               Zapato-1 is on the same trend as the Varadero oilfield (Image: Melbana Energy)



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