Petronas will begin a 257-day, three-well drilling campaign in Suriname’s offshore Block 52 in June. The program details were disclosed in documents submitted to the country’s National Institute for Environment & Development (NIMOS), according to a report in Upstream Online on April 7.
Five wells, two surveys for Suriname’s offshore basin | OilNOW
The Malaysian state-controlled company is considering an integrated development using a floating liquefied natural gas solution. Drilling will target Block 52, which spans 4,749 square kilometers north of Suriname’s coast.
In 2020, Petronas made a gas discovery in the block with the Sloanea-1 exploration well. The company drilled the Sloanea-2 appraisal well earlier this year to further assess the find.
About 500 million boe in Suriname’s Block 52 – Rystad Energy | OilNOW
Last November, hydrocarbons were encountered at the Roystonea-1 exploration well in Block 52. Petronas also operates Block 48 with full ownership and holds a 30% non-operating interest in Block 53, where the Baja-1 oil discovery was made in 2022.
Among frontier basins, Rystad Energy placed Suriname second only to Turkey in terms of conventional discoveries in the period 2020-2024. Turkey’s estimated recoverable resources discovered in the period amount to 3.6 billion oil-equivalent barrels.
