The US supermajor confirmed reports from Upstream sources that Skipjack, which was spud on 17 July, was a dry hole.
The company did not detail if there were any hydrocarbon shows during the drilling.
Sources familiar with the geology in the vast Guyana-Suriname basin called the Skipjack prospect a geological lookalike to Liza, re¬iterating comments previously made by executives at Exxon¬Mobil’s partner Hess that the Stabroek block contained potentially more than 20 structures with similar attributes as Liza.
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