Abstract

During the planning of the recent Phase-5 development drilling campaign at Ravva, an exploration prospect was identified that could be reached from the existing platform and hence developed immediately after discovery. With this objective, Exploration Well-X was planned to target the untested fault block due north of the producing REFB field (Figure 1). The prospect was identified by leveraging several seismic technologies, with AVO being the most important of them. The key challenges were to ascertain hydrocarbon presence and reservoir thickness ahead of the drill bit.