{"id":18426,"date":"2025-10-07T12:04:50","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T04:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.classic-ap.com\/?p=18426"},"modified":"2025-10-07T12:58:31","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T04:58:31","slug":"eni-restarts-exploratory-drilling-with-saipem-offshore-libya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.classic-ap.com\/en\/industry-news-en\/eni-restarts-exploratory-drilling-with-saipem-offshore-libya.html","title":{"rendered":"Eni restarts exploratory drilling with Saipem offshore Libya"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Eni resumed its exploration activities in the offshore area northwest of Libya, specifically in Block 16\/4, after a hiatus of more than five years. This comeback includes re-entering the exploratory well C1-16\/4 (also known as BESS-3), where drilling operations were previously halted in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Ensco rig 4005 started drilling the C1-16\/4 well on 11 March 2020, reaching a depth of 1,012 ft. However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the well was secured and temporarily abandoned, leading to the rig\u2019s decommissioning on 14 April 2020.
Saipem\u2019s sixth-generation semisubmersible drilling rig Scarabeo-9 is currently re-entering the well to complete drilling operations, aiming to reach the final planned depth of 10,520 ft.
The exploratory well C1-16\/4 is situated in Contract Area D, previously known as MN 41, in the offshore region northwest of Libya. It lies at a water depth of about 743 m, approximately 95 km from the Libyan coast and around 15 km from the Bahr Es Salam gas field.\uff082025-10-07\uff09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Eni resumed its exploration activities in the offshore area northwest of Libya, specifically in Block 16\/4, after a hiatus of more than five years. This comeback includes re-entering the exploratory well C1-16\/4 (also known as BESS-3), where drilling operations were previously halted in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.The Ensco rig 4005 started drilling the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry-news-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.classic-ap.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.classic-ap.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.classic-ap.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.classic-ap.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.classic-ap.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18426"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.classic-ap.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18429,"href":"https:\/\/www.classic-ap.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18426\/revisions\/18429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.classic-ap.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.classic-ap.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.classic-ap.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}