The London-listed player and its partners have already identified a number of leads on acreage near ExxonMobil’s prolific Stabroek block and they are encouraged by the US supermajor’s wildcat miss there at the Skipjack well as it is by the Liza and recent Payara discoveries.

Tullow exploration director Angus McCoss told Upstream: “We are purposefully updip of that (Liza) setting.