Rathlin Energy (UK) Ltd announced that the main drilling rig and associated equipment began mobilisation today at West Newton-B site in East Yorkshire.
The equipment will be rigged up within two weeks before a borehole is drilled, 24 hours a day, to an approximate depth of 2,000 metres.
The operation is expected to be completed between six and ten weeks before the drill rig is then demobilised.
The West Newton B-1 (WNB-1) well targets the same conventional reservoirs in the Kirkham Abbey and Cadeby carbonate formations that were encountered in the recently drilled West Newton A-2 well.
Rock samples and other data acquired during the drilling of WNB-1 will inform a subsequent programme of well testing to establish the well’s productive capability and any future drilling operations.
The conductor rig, which set at a depth of 74 metres in the Cretaceous chalk and cemented in place, was demobilised from the site last week.