RE: Verbier Spud28 Feb 2019 21:00
Arguably the more important statistics are those of the sidetrack Verbier discovery, which only took 21 days to drill (guidance was 25-35 days) helped by the fact the new TD was 3811m. This was 486m less than the original Verbier well, which as you state was spud on 15th August.
They are after the same Upper Jurassic sands with the forthcoming appraisal, with a planned TD of 3819m.
There is a 2km step out in a NW direction from the discovery location TD.
As you say, with a fair wind we should expect results anytime from late March to mid April. Given the possibility of a sidetrack spud guidance may be up to 70 days (as with Verbier 20/5b-13) but the appraisal well TD should be in the window of 20-30 days subject to all sorts of possible eventualities, including of course testing :)
I believe it's going to be worth the wait. We are fortunate to have had three technical teams working on state of the art broadband 3D seismic and of course the down hole data from 20/5b-13z.