Petroleum Development Oman LLC (PDO) spudded the vertical wildcat well Mabrouk Northeast 2 with land rig â86â, in its onshore 90,874 sq km Block 06 licence on 30 March 2017 and subsequently suspended the well at approximately 5,400 m on 13 July 2017, implying deep gas objectives. On 18 August 2016, PDO spudded the vertical wildcat well Mabrouk Northeast 1 with land rig â78. It was subsequently abandoned on 16 September 2016 at approximately 3,430 m, following which PDO immediately kicked off its second hole Mabrouk Northeast 1ST1. This was also abandoned (on 15 October) at a similar depth. A third hole Mabrouk Northeast 1ST2 was kicked off on 15 October and was suspended on 24 December 2016 at 5,340 m, the result unreported. The wells had Cambrian-Ordovician Miqrat Formation and Barik Sandstone Member objectives and are located in the Makarem-Mabrouk High of the Oman Basin. The Mabrouk field area is located south of Khazzan-Makarem and west of the Saih Rawl gas fields. The Mabrouk Northeast 1 well is situated approximately 15 km north-northeast of the Mahjour 1 (Mabrouk discovery) well. In December 2015, PDO restarted its oil development drilling programme at the Mabrouk field. Gas development drilling continued at Mabrouk in 1H 2015.  Mabrouk discovery well, Mahjour 1, was drilled in 1979, and the field was brought on-stream in 1981 from the Permian Gharif Formation, an average daily production of 1,250 b/d of oil was achieved in 1984. The deeper Adman Formation gas/condensate reservoir was proven by Mabrouk 4 in 1993. Early production was from the discovery and appraisal wells, development drilling only began in 2003 with Mabrouk 6 and its sidetracks, followed by Mabrouk 7 in 2004. In March 2013, PDO announced that it had made a significant onshore gas discovery containing 2.9 Tcf of gas and 115 MMbbl of condensate In Place. Speaking at a press briefing, PDOâs Managing Director Raoul Restucci described the Mabrouk Deep gas discovery as sweet, largely free of hydrogen sulphide and carbon dioxide gases, and with a good porosity reservoir. As a conventional gas discovery the reservoir would not require hydraulic fracturing to produce, but nevertheless, it was âprobably going to be more than three years before we get full field developmentâ. Mabrouk 32 started production in early January 2013 (only 10 months after reaching TD).  PDO is 100% rightholder of Block 06. The Oman government hold a 60% stake in PDO, with the remaining equity being held by Shell (34%), Total (4%) and Partex (2%).  Â  Â 
Oman (Ghaba Salt Sub-basin (Oman B.)) Saih Rawl