The Yellowtail area offshore Guyana contains oily fluids similar to those of the Liza discovery, which US oil giant ExxonMobil made back in 2015. The recent additional reservoirs found in this location are likely to be moved up the queue as the fourth development at Stabroek Block.
The hull for the Prosperity FPSO, targeting Guyana’s 3rd offshore development, at a shipyard in China – Photo Credit: (OilNow)
John Hess, CEO of Hess Corporation, a 30 percent stakeholder at the Stabroek Block, said that drill stem testing would be conducted this year at both Yellowtail-1 and Yellowtail-2 to get more production information about its quality of reservoirs found there.
It was announced in July that appraisal drilling at Yellowtail-2 identified two additional high-quality hydrocarbon-bearing reservoirs, one adjacent to, and the other below the Yellowtail field.
“What I’d like to say is that this greater Yellowtail area is showing that it’s a very significant oil accumulation of high-quality oil like Liza, and you know with this appraisal work that we’re doing and the drill stem test, that’s going to give us very valuable information to basically assess moving the greater Yellowtail area up in queue to potentially be the fourth FPSO,” Hess said.
The first three FPSOs for Guyana are the Liza Destiny, Liza Unity, and the Prosperity, which is awaiting government approvals for production start-up at the Payara development.
“I’d say the read-through is very encouraging that both Yellowtail 2 and Redtail will make the greater Yellowtail area a significant oil accumulation that will underpin a future FPSO and most likely the fourth ship,” Hess stated.
The 18th discovery at the Stabroek Block was announced on Tuesday at the Redtail-1 well, adding to the previously announced estimated recoverable resource of more than 8 billion oil-equivalent barrels on the block.
[Extracted and Modified from OilNow]
