The probe has slipped a bit from its original late 2013 spud target as other prospects have moved up the schedule by virtue of successful farm-out deals.
Whydah is an Upper Miocene play with a pre-drill resource estimate of around 85 million barrels of oil equivalent.
The prospect is located just north of the Murphy-operated Thunder Hawk development and, if successful, would likely be developed subsea and tied back to the production semi-submersible.
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