Petrobras on 22 August 2019 filed an oil show report with the ANP for appraisal well 3BRSA1368SES on the BM-SEAL-4 Block in the Sergipe-Alagoas Basin. The Petrobras 10000 rig, operated by Transocean, spud the well on 20 June in a water depth of 2,647m. The well has a planned total depth of 5,609m and is in the Moita Bonita area with the Early Cretaceous Muribeca Formation as the projected objective. The well completed operations on 9 October and now is assumed to be suspended as a potential oil producer in the future. Petrobras on 17 April 2019, filed an oil and gas show report with the ANP for the 3BRSA1367SES outpost well on the BM-SEAL-4 Block. It was spud on 13 March also using the Petrobras 10000 rig, in a water depth of 2,625m. The well had a planned total depth of 5,490m and soon after the show report, Petrobras finished the drilling of the well in the Moita Bonita area. Petrobras claimed the drilling of the well confirmed the extent of the gas discovery Petrobras claims with a total thickness of 39m and a reservoir depth of 5,227m. The well also discovered a deeper oil reservoir, with a total thickness of 24m. It was the fifth appraisal well extension well in the Moita Bonita area, whose discovery 1BRSA1088SES was reported in August 2012. The BM-SEAL-4 Block is currently in its third period which calls for the drilling of three wells. The Discovery Assessment Plan (PAD) for 1BRSA1088SES expires in December 2020. The 3BRSA1367SES is located about 5.3km north-west of the discovery well and should be the final required well for the PAD. The drilling of the 3BRSA1367SES represented the resumption of the exploratory activities in the Sergipe-Alagoas Basin which had seen no drilling in three years. The Early Cretaceous Muribeca Formation was believed to be the objective. Block BM-SEAL-4 was acquired in ANP Round 2 by Petrobras which has a 75% stake while partner ONGC has the remaining 25%. On 20 July 2018, Petrobras disclosed the start of its binding offer phase farm-in divestment process on four deepwater blocks in the Sergipe-Alagoas Basin including BM-SEAL-4. Petrobras is offering 35% of the block. It is also offering 30% of the SEAL-M-499 Block where it also holds 100%. Petrobras is expected to issue a declaration of commerciality for its PADs in the offshore Sergipe Alagoas Basin in 2020 and probably relinquish the remaining exploration areas on expiry in the deepwater basin. On 18 February 2016, the ANP board of directors reviewed the Discovery Assessment Plans (PADs) currently in progress in the deepwater Sergipe-Alagoas Basin and decided based on proposal 1151 of December 2015, to grant a postponement of two years for the remaining required activities in six PADs in the basin. The PADs included 1BRSA851SES (SEAL-M-426), 1BRSA1022SES (BM-SEAL-4), 1BRSA1083SES (SEAL-M-426), 1BRSA1088SES (SEAL-M-499), 1BRSA1104SES (SEAL-M-349) and 1BRSA1108SES (SEAL-M-424). Exceptions to the postponement were drilling the next well planned on the PAD for 1BRSA1088SES and the acquisition of 3D seismic data for the PADs of 1BRSA1104SES and 1BRSA1088SES. The final deadline for the six PAD's was reset to 1 December 2020. <P />
3BRSA1368SES Petrobras on the BM-SEAL-4 Block in the Sergipe-Alagoas Basin oil show report with the ANP 