HRT spuds Cajazeira light oil wildcat

Solimoes search: QGOG's QGVIII, above, spuds Cajazeira probe

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Bill Lehane

 18 March 2013 13:57 GMT

Brazil’s HRT has spudded a wildcat on the Cajazeira light oil prospect in the Solimoes Basin onshore Brazil.

The Rio de Janeiro-based independent said that the 1-HRT-11-AM was being drilled on block SOL-T-172 around 60 kilometres northeast of the Leste do Urucu field in Caori municipality, Amazonas state.          

The drill by the Queiroz Galvao-owned land rig QG-VIII and aims to test an elongated NE-SW domic structure, believed to be similar to the Jurua/Tefe and Urucu trends.

The main target of this well is to identify the presence of hydrocarbons in Carboniferous reservoirs of the Jurua formation, expected at 2035 metres depth.

The secondary target is to identify the Devonian reservoirs of the…

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