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wildcat well

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Noun1.wildcat well - an exploratory oil well drilled in land not known to be an oil field
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oil well, oiler - a well that yields or has yielded oil
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But for now, we’ve finished the field seismic work in Australia, drilled one wildcat well in Saskatchewan, and are getting ready to drill a horizontal development well at Wordsworth in early July.
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Under the plan, NOC is targeting a minimum of 50 wildcat wells drilled per year and the shooting of a minimum of 4000 km2 of 3D seismic and 10,000 km of 2D seismic per year.
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The number of such wildcat wells depends not so much on funding, but on weather and how long the winter cold temperatures will last, she added.
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