PCL release on Tulainyo8 Jan 2018 00:00
We have no direct interest in this drill but it gives more of a view to the basin in general...
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Tulainyo Gas Zones Evaluation Update
 Post well evaluation indicates multiple potential gas pay zones.
 Pancontinental interprets up to 56 metres (183 feet) of potential gas
pay in sandstones.
 Planning for a critical flow test program is advanced.
Commenting on the project milestone, Pancontinental CEO John Begg said:
“We made an initial release of the well results when total depth had been reached and the
zones of interest cased off and preserved for testing. Since then, evaluation of the well
data, in particular the wireline logs, has progressed. We are now more confident that the
entire section of interest is gas saturated and sandstone reservoirs of sufficient quality to
support commercial scale flows of natural gas are present. We still need to prove this via
flow testing and will have more to say about the test program once finalised.
From the outset we have viewed this as a potential play opening well. If we are successful
with the test program, we have a real shot at proving up at Tulainyo what Pancontinental
believes has potential to be the largest new, conventional gas project in California in many
years”.
Pancontinental Oil & Gas NL (ASX: PCL) (“Pancontinental” or “Company”) is pleased to
provide the following operations update for the Tulainyo 2-7 gas appraisal well in the
Sacramento Gas Basin, California.
After drilling as planned to a total measured depth of 5,710 feet (1740.4 m) the Ensign Rig
587 was demobilised from site, the well cased and suspended and preparations are
underway to return to site with a gas production testing unit.
Detailed analysis of the well data has been conducted for the primary section of interest
within the Early Cretaceous Lodogo Formation. The analysis indicates multiple stacked
sandstone units, varying as expected in thickness and quality, that are all gas saturated.
The well encountered gross sandstone reservoir thicknesses of up to 118 metres (386 feet)
with estimated, net gas pay of 56 metres (183 feet). Higher quality reservoir units exhibit
porosities ranging from 15%-20%.
The Tulainyo project is located on the wests flank of the Sacramento Gas Basin
approximately 120 km northeast of Sacramento. It is held under leases covering some
40,000 net acres (152 km²) positioned just 8 km from a major gas transport trunkline that
supplies gas from Canada into the enormous California domestic gas market. California
consumes on average some 7 Bcf of gas per day (2.6 TCF gas per year) and up to 11 Bcf of
gas per day during peak periods. Gas prices attract a premium to the USA benchmark,
Henry Hub pricing.
The Tulainyo joint venture includes operator California Resources Production Corporation
(“CRPC”), a subsidiary of a NYSE-