Namibia: Another dry well

Namibia’s offshore has delivered another dry well with the failure of Repsol’s Welwitschia-1A wildcat in the Walvis Basin. The well was drilled to a total depth of 2,454 metres but found that the Palaeocene, Maastrichtian and upper Campanian section reservoirs were less well-developed than expected, and no hydrocarbons were encountered. Drilling was delayed by late delivery of the rig and operational issues during drilling that meant the well had to be respudded.