On 5 March 2020, PEMEX abandoned dry the Ku 201EXP directional new-pool-wildcat (NPW) in the AE-0013-2M-Pilar de Akal-Kayab-04 (AE-0161-Chalabil) entitlement block during end-January 2020. The NPW was spudded on 14 October 2019, with a proposed total depth (PTD) of 4,790 m measured depth m (MD) and 4,750 m true vertical depth (TVD). The NFW targeted the Upper Jurassic from 4,340 m to 4,790 m. The well was drilled by the âIndepedencia Iâ J/U in a water depth of 37 m, in the northwestern area of the block approximately 6 km west of the Ku Field. It has estimated unrisked prospective resources of 45 MMboe. PEMEX estimated the drilling cost at 1USD to 20 MXN to be USD 38.97 million and the completion cost to be USD 13.31 million.     On 6 August 2019, the CNH granted approval to a PEMEX request for a modification of the exploration plan for the AE-0013-2M-Pilar de Akal-Kayab-04 entitlement block that involves the addition of an incremental well scenario which is the Ku 201EXP. On 24 July 2019, the CNH approved a PEMEX request for a drilling permit for the Ku 201EXP NPW.     The      AE-0013-2M-Pilar de Akal-Kayab-04 entitlement block was granted to PEMEX      by SENER on 27 August 2014 and extended for two years on 27 August 2017      but was relinquished on 27 August 2019. It was superseded by the 730.16 sq      km AE-0161-Chalabil      entitlement block on 28 August 2019.
Mexico (Sureste B.), Ku-201EXP npw, operated by PEMEX (100%), NW part of AE-0013-2M-Pilar de Akal-Kayab-04 (AE-0161-Chalabil) block, offshore, WD 37m, P&A dry as of Jan '20, Indepedencia I JU. PTMD was 4,790m (4,750m TVD), target U. Jurassic.