Second dry hole for Murphy in exploration drilling campaign offshore Côte d’Ivoire

Murphy Oil and partner PETROCI have agreed to plug and abandon (P&A) the deepwater Caracal-1X exploration well in Block CI-102 offshore Côte d’Ivoire. 

As with the partnership’s earlier Civette-IX, the Caracal-1X well, which reached a total depth of 8,534 ft (2,601 m), was deemed a dry hole after encountering hydrocarbon shows.

Murphy said it would use the results to assess the remaining prospectivity across its Côte d’Ivoire offshore acreage. The partners remain committed to continuing drilling operations in the current back-to-back campaign with the Bubale-1X well in Block CI-709.

This will target a different geological play.