Question on Murphy's Caracara Well (Suriname)Here's the QandA regarding the Suriname well - Transcript from Seeking Alpha below.
Operator
And your next question comes from Blake Fernandez of Howard Weil.
Blake Fernandez - Howard Weil
Couple of question for you, David. Can you remind me the Suriname is that a three well commitment? I'm trying to get a feel for, if second well is indeed dry, what the plans are for there?
David Wood
Let me kind of give you a little bit of my thoughts on where we are with Suriname. We did drill the first well at Caracara. We found good quality reservoir, actually better than we had predicted. But it did not contain any oil. The rig is currently waiting on whether to move to Aracari. And we hope that that's going to take place imminently.
The results of Caracara kind of underscore some other things we though going in and helped address one main risk, which was the present of reservoir. So we believe we got reservoir in the system. The several 100 meters, actually it's about 600 meters of shale that are overlying that same package had oil shelves.
And we believe that that is encouraging for the play, because we wanted confirmation that we were in the kitchen area. And we believe that that suggests that we are. What is also interesting is that the next prospect is drilling a seismic anomaly that is down dip from where these oil shelves were seen in this well.
Now, the second risk element is up dip seal, the encouragement news here is that there is oil shelves within that sealed section for this next prospect. Now, that's what we've seen and that's what we understand. We still got to drill the well, we still got to make sure that it itself has reservoir. But as oil exploration around the world, occasionally you are lucky enough to make a discovery with the first well.
And sometimes it takes small wells to understand what you're doing, but we have done as a company both. In this case here it does not discourage us that Caracara is dry, having said that, I love making discoveries with the first well. But we are seeing some of the things, the way we thought they should be and when you're in the exploration business that is always good.
We will drill two wells. We will let the rig go to other people, and the rig will comeback to us. And we have a number of prospects, some of different play types than what we've tested, and we'll be looking to drill those. So that's kind of the plan that we're on that.
Blake Fernandez - Howard Weil
Thank you for the comprehensive answer there. Also you mentioned the Congo pre-salt, is there a specific timeframe on when we may see that spud?
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