Again . . . FYI thoughtsFrom Kenny on hte IAE London board
On balance we should take the company's estimation of 80-90 days duration for each drill as a decent average guide. A1 took 85 days so they were spot on there but that will not always be the case as they cannot anticipate en route issues and variables such as weather. We should be mindful that A2 and A3 are being conducted during the seasons of weather extremes in the north sea so we're bound to experience operation suspensions, albeit for relatively short periods. A2 may already have had such weather extremes during mid November as indicated by very little north sea rig movement during that period.
I've just had a quick read on Stockhouse and see that some are counting the days from notification of the A1 well test result as being the start of A2?!?? Although A2 didn't require a rig move the A1 well still had to undergo suspension followed by a drilling platform skid to a pre-defined position so that A2 could undergo set-up and spudding, all of which could not be achieved by merely working through a lunch break.