The plan, he said, would not be “to appraise everything”. Instead, the partners in the block would “accelerate the time to market … if we have the chance to really confirm the volumes which seems to have been discovered, there will be room to make fast track developments, like we did on Block 17, 25 years ago.”
Shell spudded the Jonker well in December. “I’m not saying anything apart from to say it is going well, it is going very well,” Shino said to applause.
Northern Ocean owns the Deepsea Mira, which is currently warm stacked in Norway. The company also owns the Deepsea Bollsta, which began drilling a well for Shell this week.
