Drilling to begin in Seme Field offshore Benin

Akrare Petroleum Benin SA, a subsidiary of Lime Petroleum Holding, has given a detailed update of its plans with the redevelopment of the Seme Field in Block 1 offshore Benin

The Borr Gerd jack-up rig by Borr Drilling will be arriving this month as drilling is set to start early July. The following 100 days will see the drillinjg of three well-bores. The first will be an appraisal well designed to gather new data on deeper reservoir units. Afterwards, two horizontal production wells will be drilled and completed in the H6 reservoir, in which subsurface analysis has suggested significant remaining reserves, even though there has been previous production. 

The company aims to complete drilling by October, when a Mobile Offshore Production Unit (MOPU) will arrive, along with a Floating Storage & Offloading unit (FSO)set to arrive mid-September. The MOPU will be hooked to the newly-drilled wells, and production is expected to start in October 2025 at production rates of approximately 16,000 barrels of oil per day (bopd). 

The Seme Field redevolopment programme has been planned in phases, beginning with the production restoration stage. This runs parallel to extensive data collection activities for an optimised approach. The reprocessing of 2007 3D seismic data has been completed.

Phase 2 of the development will be evaluated to check possibilities in deeper H7 and H8 reservoirs, as well as further development drilling in the H6 reservoir. 

Lime Petroleum is a subsidiary of the Singapore-based oil and gas company, Rex International Holding.