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OH heck! hit 'send' without meaning to!

... I also fully agree with your comment (not often we're in 'full agreement'!) about Lancaster being the 'sweet spot'. It's been underlying my thoughts all day, or at least those parts of the day when I was pondering Hurricane, rather than the latest ladies' fashions when the sun comes out, talking poker with a barman I know, and reading in the online 'Times' that people are slowly realising that Jeremy Corbyn is a senile old git.

But at the same time, Lancaster has proved oil outside structural closure, and we don't know how far Lancaster extends? It's 35 km of ridge up to Halifax...

I dunno what the next RNS will read (hopefully Monday), nor how the SP will react. But I've got a firm grip on this tiger's ruff off the neck, and the ride's definitely interesting. And although I don't know anything about riding tigers, I've heard it said that if you bail out, the tiger will suddenly turn around and eat you. So I'm not going to do that.

Wellwell,

" had the nominal losses AK said he heard about indicating that they are not crossing any significant fractures"

In the same series of 'rumour comms' I was receiving at the time, I also heard that significant fractures had been encountered.

But make of that what you will.

I'd underline that although I disagree with your earlier idea that there's 'no oil', I'm not discounting the possibility that with the immediate drilling outside structural closure and going straight for a horizontal deeper than other wells relative to (prognosed) oil column, they may not have had the fantastic data anticipated. It would be foolish of me to write off that possibility.

But at the same time, I also fully agree with your comment (not often we're in 'full agreement'!) about Lanc

Craig8,
"They tried nitrogen lift at Halifax which didn’t work due to the mud and drill chips forming a skin and possibly damaging the reservoir. It was mentioned by dr T that they didn’t have an ESP to try clean up the well and it maybe an option upon revisiting."

Quite correct, and also they were overruning rigtime and possibly budget.

Mallye,

Thanks for reposting, 'cos honestly that earlier post has disappeared, from my screen at least. But yes, the new site format seems to throw all sorts of wobblers from time to time.

It was this phrase from the other poster which alarmed me:

" Furthermore, they're using a brine circulation system, heavilly laden with LCM, which means they'll be drilling the reservoir section underbalanced"

Brine, yes, 10-4. 'Heavily laden with LCM'?

????????????

I sure hope not.

And although I do reckon (posts passim) there might have been some 'leeway' taken with mud density, drilling underbalanced on a 'exploration' well sounds highly unlikely to me.

SotB,

"I’m also laughing at your carp, why guess ?"

Leave my pet fish out of this...

JohnPearson,

You ain't been here long enough! A lot of the tit-for-tat is good natured (especially at weekends) and harmless. If SotB actually wrote a post agreeing with any of mine, I'd start worrying for his health. I'll buy him a pint any day. And take all his money if he's daft enough to sit down for a cardgame with me.

This might be appropriate for SotB,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njbJ_DcA11o

PS SotB,

In an average six-hour poker game, I may bluff twice. And then, rarely.

SotB,

"ADUK: you are talking bollacks... go play some poker without bluffing."

Same to you, with hooters, bells, and whistles attached!

If you're refering to my Warwick / heavy oil post, I DID say I was posting out of mischief, 'cos it IS a fairly crackpot idea. But NOT impossible, and thus (in Sherlock Holmes terms), not yet 'eliminated'.

I did also mention that you have to kick stones to see what creepy-crawlies emerge. Thanks for obliging!

JK (et al),

Nevertheless, Mallye wrote a reply to my response, quoting someone on another board. And that post's vanished. I was waiting to get home to pen a further reply, but was too late. Maybe the 'other poster' was relaying 'inside info' or something.

JK,

"Mallye's post is still there, see 15:36."

So it is! Maybe I shouldn't have had that second beer. Or maybe it's the hot weather getting to me. Yes, it must be that.

At least SotB can read it and get up to speed...

SotB,

"Why would coil tubing be mobilised to the rig. It can sit at the dock on stand by if needed sail it to the rig ? Lerwick Aberdeen who knows."

OK, a sensible remark, for once (!). :-)))

A reasonable point. But to date, Hurricane has used CT on all its DST's. So to my mind, it would make to send it out with everything else and rig it all up as a 'package', rather than finding out you need it, waiting for shipment, going through the hoopla of additional rigup, and so on? If it turns out you don't need it, OK, you've wasted some money, but it's like an unused insurance. The alternative approach costs more.

As mentioned earlier, rumour has it CT never went to the rig. But I'll immediately cover my back by repeating it's rumour. Not stating it as fact.

WWN,

I completely agree. Plus it mustn't be forgotten that there were already screw-ups on this well which 'delayed' things, and maybe HUR / Spirit want to keep to a timeline regarding rig usage.

So long as WD has found what was being looked for, and thus becomes classed as a 'discovery', that's the main thing. All of a sudden we can add whatever's there as 2C resources, and that counts for a lot more than a DST. II's might understand this if they have a specialist O&G dept, but some PI's might not.

What a fun day, here, with all sorts of techie discussion. And at one point this afternoon, out on the street (or rather, no, on a café terrace having a beer and reading the BB) another reason a flare may not have been seen. It's pretty tenuous, but out of mischief I'm going to air it here to see if anything bites.

What if Lincoln and Warwick aren't contiguous, that there's a 'barrier fault' somewhere? And what if Warwick in fact contains a 'heavy' oil, unlike that on Lancaster? Summat hi-viscosity? That could explain the wells's reluctance to come in using simple underbalance means, and without resorting to CT and pumping N2.

OK, it's just a mischievous thought! But to my mind, not impossible. Heck, we've got 'compartmentalisation' between Lancaster and Whirlwind, and the company still won't commit to what exactly Whirlwind contains, other than volumes. We know it's 'gassy', but how much is oil, or possibly condensate, we don't know. So why not a heavy oil 'compartment' as well, just to even things out?

Hey! If you want to see the creepy-crawlies, you've got to kick at stones... Over to the rest of you.

:-))

And that's very, very odd. Mallye's post seems to have suddenly been 'disappeared'. And there was another thing I wanted to respond to him about. I guess I'd better not, now.

SotB,

"Why or who suggested they are they using coil tubing ?"

Keep up, ffs. Mallys asked a question about CT drilling, to which I responded, that's all. Nobody suggested it was being used.

However, I did get word that CT wasn't mobilised to the rig along with the rest of the DST gear. That I do find very odd, and (if the rumour's true) unprecedented with Hurricane's more recent wells to date. But there has to have been a reason, if that's the case.

Malye, Wrt your quéstio on CT (coiled tubing) drilling. 1 CT drilling remains 'open hole'. 2 CT drillin remains limited regarding hole diameter. Hurricane's WoS wells could not be drilled to the same design with CT. 3 The vertical/buildup sections of the wells are not in granite, fractured or not. But I greatly doubt that the horizontals would suit themselves to CT. 4 I don't know if CT drilling has ever been tried offshore or N.Sea. I doubt it. It remains a rather 'niche' sort of technique, mostly developed in Oman by Shell / Schlumberger, under the name 'Project Galileo'. A friend of mine was heavily involved with it for a few years.

johnpwh,

"b )If hydocarbons are present in Warwick, and it is one single accumulation with Lincoln, does it matter where on the Lincoln/Warwick area the production is taken from? "

That's one of today's better questions. And the answer is no. And I belive it's pertinent, and a clue as to why the rig's going to move, rather than persisting on WD for now.

From rumours I heard, the horizontal was displaced to base oil prior to running the DST, and of course the well will have been further underbalanced to try the test. But I also heard that coiled tubing was never onboard (which I find very strange), so further attempts using heavy underbalance with nitrogen wouldn't have been possible. Of course I don't know if that rumour is 100% true. But if so, it will have been planned that way, for whatever reason.

I simply refuse to accept Wellwell's idea that there's 'no oil'. If there hadn't been any oil coming back with the drill cuttings, and the bit had crossed no fractures (I heard it did), the well would have been logged and then abandoned with no attempts at a DST. Again, I may be wrong in this, but unless I read it in black and white in an RNS, I won't believe it.

Earlier rumours while the horizontal was being drilled was that all looked good, and Dr T was happy with what he was seeing. In an alternative situation, and giving the nature of bad news, I think word to that effect would have been all around Aberdeen much earlier on.

But the information remains far too sparse for now. The possibilitty of Halifax-like 'plugging' is pure speculation for now. But there may be other reasons the well was reluctant to flow with a low underbalance.

One way or another, the company HAS TO issue an RNS in short order, hopefully Monday. And the company isn't stupid. They'll be quite aware that if they issue an RNS simply stating that WD operations are finished and that rigmove is imminent, without giving detail on the well, such an announcement would be met with howls of protest by all shareholders, both PI and II. Hurricane's PR is sometimes a bit lacking, but not to that extent.

We'll find out soon...

However...

Although the document linked by dspp was interesting, I think the term 'flash test' was used in a slightly different way by the 'source' from whom my 'source' was getting information originating WoS. Unrelated to sample-testing in the lab, but more in the DST context. Which is why I was puzzled.

The two are related, though, and might go a ways to explain why the rig's moving on to Lincoln, rather than getting in CT and eating up more rigtime on WD.

This is highly technical, and only people like dspp might be able to figure out my intuition, after a bit of thought. (And of course my intuitions may be wrong, though on this one I suspect not.)n But I'm expecting a rather 'Halifax-ish' RNS regarding WD. As a 'discovery' (thus upgrading things and putting the next Warwick well onto 'appraisal' staus, with all that implies), but with no bells and whistles like flowrates, which are the only things the 'laypersons' appear interested in, even if such people don't properly understand those, either.)

Apologies if this sounds a bit elitist, but that's how it is. I'll be really interested to read the RNS, and how it explains things.

JK,

"I think Nen's post might of have a tad of sarcassm running through it"

If that's the case, I apologise to Nen for the misunderstanding.

"Hope you're keeping well, and you've got aircon!"

As well as ever, thanks! But no need for aircon. Temperatures were down to 33c today, but a nice breeze picked up. And spent a good part of the evening sitting at the café outside the 'cultural centre / public library' beside the river, watching a rather original and fun local rock band (think a cross between King Crimson and the Sex Pistols) and drinking beer, before getting home to join my regular online poker-game. And (with all the windows open), the temperature in my flat is a comfy 22 degrees, right now. Things could be worse...

nen2319,

"Driver you convinced me mate. I’ve sold all the shares I had. Thx for saving me!"

That made me laugh.

'Thedriver' posted his "No oil is my gut feeling" comment at 23:36.

And following that comment, you claim to have sold? On what market, pray? London has been closed for many hours, and I think Wall Street was closed by then, as well. Unless you've put in a sell order for first thing Monday, which would be utter madness.

I doubt you've actually ever held any actual HUR shares.