RE:RE:Total and Apache …Gotta agree with you there wcp. I mean how in the heck do they know what they have without first testing the well? XOM Liza-1 was an exploration well, not optimized to be tested much less completed. Hole diameter too small at TD.
They then drilled appraisal well Liza-2 with larger hole diameter at TD that could be tested. They tested it and found no permeability barriers or "compartmentalization" which means that 100,000 of thousands of barrels of oil can flow to production wells over thousands of square hectares of reservoir rock at high pressure with no constraints in flow.
Kawa was an exploration well. Not designed to be tested or completed. Wei was drilled to TD with 12 1/4 inch hole as I understand it. Designed as an appraisal well that can be tested. So the rig has been released without testing the well.
People wonder why volumes are so low. Heck a company called New Strata Energy from former Pacific Rubiales founders has more volume traded than oyl and fec combined. Nobody seems to give a f what fec/oyl found in the Golden Lane because, to most of us, if they found something, they'd be testing the well right now.