Kosmos Energy is undeterred by drilling two dry holes off Suriname this year as the US independent prepares to return with another wildcat by the end of the decade, writes Eoin O’Cinneide.

The Dallas-based player first struck out at the Anapai-1A well on Block 45 this summer, before kicking up dust at the Pontoenoe-1 probe on Block 42 last month.