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Baits - shame he didn't know which well to drill the sidetrack from....or password protect his computer lol

I see somebody saw my twitter link then ;)

Scallywag - I have already covered this in the last couple of days. Please refer to my historical posts.

Another hit to the SP for not choosing the right well to drill from. Expensive 50/50 mistake yet they still get paid a salary and are awarded millions for free shares.

Well the SP will take a hit and then I imagine will stay at these lower prices as the most important thing I noted from the RNS was not one word mentioned about Brockham and a timeline. For me that is indicative of avoiding the subject of long lead time for equipment, so I sadly think my prediction of 6 months of delays at Brockham still stands.

RealAnalyst - you should reread the RNS's and then you will discover why its going to take months.

GeoDave - then I have made my point if you can't answer it. And I totally agree with the "armchair ops directors' with only half the facts". Best to stick to the facts, especially when folk have zero oilfield experience.

GeoDave - how can you carry out a well integrity test if you have a hole in the bottom of your bucket? Thin about it. Thats like trying to do an integrity test on your car tyre when it has a puncture. Physically impossible. They have already done their liner integrity check when they ran the 7" liner and cemented it. And after drilling out 15ft of 6" rathole carried out an FIT. Long sigh.

So again...they will not be doing this, so please don't mislead folk.

GeoDave - what you have just written makes no sense at all.

How can you confirm the integrity of a well when you have perforated it?!?! You can't. It's like piercing a bottle of coke and trying to do a well integrity test on it by flowing it. Yo used to go and do some more research.

Considering that there is a Liaison Group meeting set up for this Monday and then equipment would then have to start arriving before being rigged up and tested. There is no chance of your time frame actually happening.

GeoDave - you can't check the integrity of the casing by extracting the fluids.

The main reason of the return visit is to ascertain whether its formation fluid or completion fluid as I expect them to confirm.

And the second reason is to in my mind log the reservoir section which they were unable to do last time.

GeoDave - Angus told us in their RNS that the well testing kit would be going to Balcombe while planning the remedial work at Brockham.

All they are doing is pumping the fluid out of the well and I imagine carrying out the logging of the reservoir section using coiled tubing that they couldn't do before due to coiled tubing equipment failure.

But we need some perspective here....Angus won't be flowing the well, just pumping the fluid out and sad to say confirm that its completion fluid retuning from the invasion zone around the well, which should have been picked up straight away in the returns.

The real news for investors is whats the plan at Brockham and how long do we have to wait?

thereal - don't you mean Nitrogen?

B2HS2L - the actual running, setting and testing of the bridge plug or packers is carried out by a specialist Engineer who comes as part of the package. They know their equipment inside and out and have multiple wells experience of setting these in different well profiles / conditions.

I posted this link before, but this is how you would isolate the water zone at the bottom of the well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yklTlzh7FU

I believe Doriemus were being cautious as it differs from Angus and Alba. Its most uncommon to find multiple zones, so I would still say its at the bottom of the well.

Regarding Tidswell, all he has to do is order the equipment and then work out a plan from the slickline logs which would pinpoint the water zone(s). But yes you still need to be efficient and know what you're doing. I would rather have a seasoned professional steering us forward. Tidswell has gained enough free shares in Angus over 2 1/2 years to be content.

This is from an old post regarding logging the water zone.

Carrying out slickline runs(s) will pinpoint the zone that requires to be sealed off using packers. Resistivity tool can determine whether its oil, water or gas. These measured depths from surface are required so the packers are positioned and set at the correct depths.

In the following link, scroll down to the very last chart and you will see the middle column in the header saying Resistivity. You can see how as you move deeper in the well how the resistivity curve changes when it encounters oil, water or gas. This is how Angus will pinpoint the water zone (if they haven't done already).

https://www.spec2000.net/14-contacts.htm

Pboo - I wrote the post for people with zero oilfield experience so they would understand the process.

Balcombe has flowed oil and slugged at a flow rate 3,000bopd before being cut back due to the size of production tubing (diameter) and exceeding the working limit of the oil / water / gas separator on surface. Both of which are easy fixes: run larger diameter production tubing for EWT along with a larger capacity oil / water / gas separator. Job done and that will result in flow rates larger than what was observed with the curtailed choke setting and closer to or exceeding the flow rate of 3,000bopd.

The supposed water issue is another thing that has nothing to do with Vonk. All you have to do is take a sample of the fluid coming back and check its salinity content. Completion fluid comprising of brine has a higher salinity content compared to formation water. I don't know why there was doubt between the 2 RNS.

I find it highly unlikely that its a water zone considering Balcombe is a horizontal well. Brockham yes as they drilled through multiple zones. Due to the very little operational time spent at Balcombe, I would say its the remaining completion fluid still to be removed hence why they want to remove the remaining fluid in the well (the fluid in the horizontal section).

If Angus are still working on a plan, then they haven't ordered the equipment which may delay matters by up to 6 months. Folk may not like reading this, but it's a harsh reality that Angus will sadly be very quiet for some months if not longer.

Does it mean selling up, well no. As long as you don't need the money then the well has been drilled and just needs the correct completion equipment / isolation packer(s), as well as well testing equipment, rig and OGA / EA sign off on the final equipment which will be run in hole (well schematic) which needs to include ODs / IDs of the production tubing, ODs / IDs of the completion assemblies and their setting depths.

Something similar to this:

https://www.peloton.com/products/wellview/data-analysis/#group-23

I would say due to the profile / angle of the well that the water zone is at the bottom of the perforations (deepest part of the well), as that tends to be the case as Oil and Gas is lighter than water. In simplistic terms all you need to do is run a bridge plug and squeeze some cement.

End result is you have a production well which just produces hydrocarbons with the water zone isolated. Crazy as it sounds but we will await longer for the components that they should have already had as back up at the site, along with an isolation plug as a contingency plan for encountering water (which they subsequently observed) than the time it will take to isolate the well and flowing hydrocarbons (I would say circa 2 weeks worth of operations).

Best to have this timescale in your head, so it doesn't come as a shock. And lastly, yes once the water zone has been isolated which is a standard operation and an easy fix then the SP will have a healthy rerate from its current standing.

Baits - why do we need to do a workover at Balcombe?!?!

Next step is to remove the remaining fluid and I will add what's not mentioned in the RNS is logging the reservoir section which they couldn't do during the 7 day flow test, as the part of the coiled tubing equipment failed. This information is invaluable for designing the EWT. Both displacing the remaining fluid and logging would require coiled tubing.

Then the next operation would be an EWT once everything has been signed off. So no workover.

Imac - I'm sorry, but I've read countless posts over 2 years of being on this board saying another 3-6 months doesn't matter....well it does as Brockham should have finished its EWT already, proven oil / flow rates informed to market and a healthy SP with no placings ....certainly not as many as we have witnessed. Instead we are where we are today due to poor Leadership and I'm not just talking about Vonk.

Baits - no worries,I appreciate there is a lot of fancy kit coming and going. Just wanted to clarify it as the trolls seem to feed off posting negative wrong information.

Baits - thats exactly what the post says. "Drill Company" We haven't used a drill company as you put it and the "things that have been taken away belonged to the drill company" isn't factually correct. The items removed belong to a well testing company, nothing to do with either a rig company or anything to do with drilling operations.

Baits - 16:41 post of yours

".....things that have been taken away belonged to the drill company.Now we have a new drill company who will bring their own equipment on site when they start up again."

Yanis - thank you for posting my twitter questions to Angus.

I see the communications haven't improved as nobody has ever posted a reply from Angus. It's a shame they can't even acknowledge an email. As I said before, its the same folk.

Why do folk place so much trust in a guy who lives in a van in a lay-by with zero oilfield experience? The site hasn't been abandoned, it has been suspended whilst waiting for completion equipment / isolation packer(s) that have a lead time. These are not off the shelf items that you can pick up. As I've said expect delays of 1-3 months (if it happens sooner then its a bonus).

So yes that is the reason why the H2OIL equipment has left the site as it costs money, there is no drilling equipment on the site so Baits post makes no sense whatsoever.

I do wish folk would spend more time reading the correct information than that of the lay-by man and then flood this board with inaccurate posts.

Sam - no I’m focussed on having a Brockham site with no equipment for 1-3 months due to waiting on various equipment. You can’t get excited by an empty site. Folk will want proof of activity and the well flowing first and then the SP will rise on official news.