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Initial Flow Rate GY-665

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Leni Gas & Oil PLC
17 September 2014
 

For Immediate Release

17 September 2014

 

 

Leni Gas & Oil PLC

("LGO" or the "Company")

Initial Flow Rate GY-665, Goudron Field

LGO is pleased to announce that well GY-665 at the Goudron Field in Trinidad has undergone a series of initial production tests from the Gros Morne Sandstones resulting in a calculated open-hole flow rate of 700 barrels of oil per day ("bopd") and is presently producing 41 degree API water-free oil at a rate of 415 bopd through a 12/32" choke with a well-head flowing pressure of 475 psi.

 

Neil Ritson, LGO's Chief Executive, commented:

"The second of our new wells is now on stream at a very encouraging initial production rate and flowing pressures.  The remaining three wells drilled from this pad will be placed on production shortly.  Well Services Rig 20 is being moved to the next pad to drill four further wells in the development program."

 

GY-665 is the second well put on production in the Company's approved 30 well redevelopment at the Goudron field.  An interval of 256 feet of Gros Morne sandstone was perforated between 2,073 and 2,630 feet measured depth and is flowing under natural pressure.  After a series of tests over a period of 30 hours with varying choke sizes the current stabilised flow rate is 415 bopd on a 12/32" choke with a well-head flowing pressure of 475 psi, without sand or water production.  Flow tests are continuing in order to collect the required data needed to optimize the long-term reservoir management of the well.

 

Fiscalisation of the oil from these tests is immediate with the well flowing directly to the field's oil sales system, and by pipeline to the Petrotrin Point-a-Pierre refinery.

 

The Altech-2 work-over rig is now being moved to the second of four wells drilled on this pad, GY-666, to commence completion activities and we also expect to produce that well from the Gros Morne sandstones in the next week.  Logging results obtained at GY-666 suggest that similar production characteristics could be expected as seen in GY-665.

 

The Well Services Rig 20 drilling rig is currently being moved to Drilling Pad 3 where it will drill four more development wells; GY-669 to 672.

 

A summary of the drilling program results to date is given in the Appendix below.

 

Competent Person's Statement:

The information contained in this announcement has been reviewed and approved by Neil Ritson, Chief Executive Officer and Director for Leni Gas & Oil Plc, who has over 35 years of relevant experience in the oil industry.  Mr. Ritson is a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE), an Active Member of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) and is a Fellow of the Geological Society of London.

 

Enquiries:

Leni Gas & Oil plc

Steve Horton

Neil Ritson

+44 (0)20 7440 0645



 

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+44(0) 20 7493 8188

 

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Financial PR

Mark Antelme

 +44 (0) 20 7861 3232

Henry Lerwill


 

Appendix:

Well

Name

Spud

Date

Total Depth

(MD feet)

Date Total Depth Reach-ed

Goudron

Net Oil Pay

(feet)

Gros Morne

Net Oil Pay

(feet)

Lower Cruse Net Oil Pay

(feet)

Compl-etion Date

Completion Formation

Completed Interval (feet)

Calculated Open-hole Initial Production Rate

(bopd)

1

GY-664

28 April

4212

13 May

192

300

79

30 May

Gros Morne

278

490

2

GY-665

27 May

2750

8 June

195

256

np

15 Sept

Gros Morne

256

700

3

GY-666

16 June

3357

1 July

185

209

28





4

GY-667

10 July

4006

30 July

187

219

28





5

GY-668

9 Aug

3026

27 Aug

191

254

np





All depths are quoted as measured depth in feet below Rotary Table

np = not penetrated

 

Glossary:

Calculated

open-hole flow rate:                                     A mathematically derived theoretical maximum flow rate that a well could deliver with zero back-pressure at the middle of the perforated interval

pay:                                                                       A reservoir or portion of a reservoir formation that contains economically producible hydrocarbons. The overall interval in which pay sections occur is the gross pay; the portion of the gross pay that meets specific criteria such as minimum porosity, permeability and hydrocarbon saturation are termed net pay

psi:                                                                         pounds per square inch

MD:                                                                        Measured Depth

TD:                                                                         Total Depth

 


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