Norway’s Equinor (formerly Statoil) has reached the mid-point in drilling the Guanxuma wildcat on Block BM-S-8 in Brazil's Santos basin pre-salt province, writes Fabio Palmigiani.

Upstream understands the Guanxuma campaign is presently crossing the salt layer with the Seadrill drillship West Saturn, on its way to a targeted final depth of more than 6600 metres that is expected to be reached in July.