Cairn Energy is to spend the majority of $125 million earmarked for exploration and appraisal work this year on its operations off Senegal.
The UK independent has already lined up the drillship Stena DrillMax to drill two firm wells at its SNE oil discovery, but is evaluating further possible probes there.
Wells SNE-5 and SNE-6 are to be drilled to the south of the SNE structure as the third phase of drilling at the play begins late this month.
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