Atlantic Petroleum completes drilling operations on the 44/23-1 Dunquin North exploration well in Frontier Exploration Licence FEL 3/04. An extensive data acquisition programme has been undertaken and the well will now be plugged and abandoned as per the pre-drill plan.

The well penetrated around 249m of the massive carbonate Cretaceous target within prognosis and was drilled to a total depth of 5000m. Petrophysical analysis of the well logs indicates an upper zone of 44m which has residual hydrocarbon saturations in a porous reservoir.

The well is operated by ExxonMobil Exploration and Production Ireland (Offshore) Limited 25.5% on behalf of its partners, Eni Ireland B.V. 27.5%, Repsol Exploracion Irlanda, S.A. 25.0%, Providence Resources P.l.c. 16.0%, Atlantic Petroleum (Ireland) Limited 4.0% and Sosina Exploration Limited 2.0%.

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