Eni Australia BV (Eni) has received the green light for a drilling campaign, 300km southwest of Darwin.

Eni operates the Blacktip facilities, located in WA-33-L, which consists of a wellhead platform (WHP) in approximately 51m water depth, platform wells, flowlines and a subsea gas export pipeline which brings gas and produced water to the Yelcherr Gas Plant.

The Blacktip drilling environment plan (EP), first submitted to the National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Management Authority in July 2022, is a standalone drilling EP covering the development drilling and completion scope for a new Blacktip development well at the WHP.

The schedule for these drilling activities will subject to mobile offshore drilling unit availability, however, is anticipated to take place between 2024 and 2027.

Once drilled, the new well will be shut in, its hook-up, commissioning and production will be covered under the Blacktip operations EP.

The Blacktip drilling EP includes a geophysical survey at the WHP, the mobilisation, positioning, and demobilisation of a jack up mobile offshore drilling unit, drilling and completions of a new development well in the Blacktip field through an existing slot, intervention on current production wells, contingent workover operations on current production wells and ongoing operations of Blacktip facilities.

Source: Energy Today Magazine