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Rathlin’s main oil drill rig arrives at West Newton-B

Rathlin Energy (UK) Ltd announced that the main drilling rig and associated equipment began mobilisation today at West Newton-B site in East Yorkshire.

Mobilisation: a borehole will be drilled to an approximate depth of 2,000 metres at West Newton-B, East Yorkshire (generic)

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.

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