Jack-up Pride Cabinda spudded the Viodo-4 appraisal well on 17 September with Soco saying an initial test was “successful” and preparations are under way to carry out a second test in a shallower section of the reservoir
Viodo, sited in the Marine XI block, was discovered in 1986 by an earlier operator and lies in about 65 metres of water.
Crude is contained in the Toca formation, a lacustrine carbonate below the regional salt horizon.
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