Cairn Energy PLC (LON:CNE) has announced that the ENI operated Ehecatl-1 exploration well, offshore Mexico, was unsuccessful.
The well had aimed to prove hydrocarbons in a Lower Miocene target but Cairn said it did not encounter any reservoired hydrocarbons.
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Analysis of the well data will now be used to update the explorer’s understanding of the block and will inform a decision on a second well.
It has now been permanently plugged and abandoned.
Ehecatl-1 was drilled some 65 kilometres offshore, using the Valaris 8505 semi-submersible rig. It was in a water depth of 426 metres and was drilled down to 4,451 metres.