Time/depth relation not normalFolks,
I checked the operational update on Kawa-1, it doesn't say anything relevant tbh.
The only piece of information they disclosed is a bit intriguing, "close to 78% of the footage drilled on the 1/11"; whereas they were at 74% on the 22/10. It makes for +/-250m of progress over a week, not very normal, especially given that they had stated "drilling ahead now" on the presentation of the 22/10.
I will not go into any non-technical hypotheses for this slow progress.
On the purely technical side, a few things may have happened that can have justifiably and understandably caused some NPT; I don't think the details are important for the audience (just a bit trip or MWD failure will not set them back for such a long period).
Any guess with such little information will be unhealthy but if I had one bullet, I would play it on wellbore breathing and stability kind of issues. The neigbors had the same, it ain't the end of the world. It would not surprise me if they end up running one of the contingency strings (the 11-34") they had planned for that kind of situations. They will go through that eventually, let's be patient.
CGX drilling team, if any of you are reading here: as I had written on a previous post, beware of the ECDs if you run that 11-3/4" please. And in case my guess regarding wellbore breathing is correct, maybe try stresscaging to strengthen the wellbore, if you already anticipated that with the mud company and with a proper geomechanical model. Apologies for sticking my nose into your well but again, I have some skin in the game here, let's keep making some hole, please.
GLTA,