The operator of the Bargou Joint Venture and the Hammamet West-3 well, Cooper Energy has advised that the jack-up drilling rig left the port of Tuzla in Turkey on 10 March.
The rig was earlier deployed in the Black Sea and it was essential to partly remove the jack-up legs and the drilling derrick in a Romanian shipyard for the tow through the Bosphorus.
Jacka said the legs and derrick top were later replaced in Tuzla, while the Hammamet West-3 well will be spudded soon after arrival.
The Hammamet West-3 well will be a 570m horizontal test of the productivity of the naturally fractured Abiod Formation.
The vertical well Hammamet West-2, which was drilled in 1990, demonstrated a 192m oil column.
In 2012, the joint venture performed a number of subsurface studies using the 3D seismic data to identify regions of best fracture development within the Abiod formation.
