Salamander Energy found oil and gas pay at its South Kecapi-1 DIR/ST exploration well in the Botang PSC in the North Kutei basin off Indonesia. The well found a combined 40m of net oil and gas pay in high-quality, stacked, Pliocene channel sandstones. A drill stem test flowed light oil at a rate of 6000b/d (constrained) and 8mmcf/d of gas.
Diamond Offshore’s Ocean General semisubmersible drilled the well to 2102m TVDSS.