Peel Hunt comment1 Jul 2019 12:50
Hurricane Energy today released an update on the Warwick Deep E&A well. The well drilled a 712m horizontal section of fractured basement reservoir, however the well did not flow at commercial rates, producing a mixture of brine, water, oil and gas.
Initial analysis indicates that the well intersected a poorly connected section of the fracture network within the oil column and the well will now be plugged and abandoned.
Given Warwick Deep tests the same fractured basement reservoir interval as the Lancaster field (separated by the Brynhild fault zone), we see negative read across to reservoir quality risk in the Lancaster field.
The rig will next move to drill the Lincoln Crestal well, the second of a three well programme on the Greater Warwick area. Hurricane has a 50% interest in the Greater Warwick area following Spirit Energy's 2018 farm in. Hurricane has a CMD on 11th July when it will provide a further update on analysis of the Warwick Deep well.