RE: ART? More like Grafitti 👎16 Jun 2023 11:49
"don't get me wrong, everyone wants this drill to be a success but the truth is there were 4 wildcat drills in 2018/2019 and all failed to find oil."
yet again you post inaccurate and incorrect data, which is also out of context. to say that the drills failed to find oil is totally incorrect. below is the true version of events in context.
the initial exploration work commenced on bogd block iv and ongi block v in 2009 with the acquisition of regional gravity data and acquisition of reconnaissance seismic lines across the potential basins identified by the gravity data. these blocks had never previously been seriously explored for oil and gas; consequently, there was no subsurface information of any description. the early exploration work identified potential basins; and exposed outcrops at the basin margins provided the easiest way to collect data on potential reservoir and source rocks. exploration field work resulted in the discovery of world-class oil shale deposits, which demonstrated the existence of potentially rich source rocks across the blocks.
blocks iv and v database consists of 4,400 kms of 2d seismic, 200 km2 of 3d seismic, 11,000 km2 of airborne acquired ftg & hram, the first acquired in the region; continuous core recovered from drilling of two deep stratigraphic holes (3000m total; 1400m and 1600m each); data obtained from extensive field work campaigns; and analysis of samples collected from various sites in the blocks.
within the taats basin of block v the snow leopard-1 well was spudded on 9 july 2018 reaching a total depth of 2830m md in basement granites. following the evaluation of wireline logs the well was plugged and abandoned with oil and gas shows on 25 september 2018 with no lost time accidents reported during the 80 day operation. although commercial volumes of hydrocarbons were not encountered, post-well analysis has proven the occurrence of a migrated oil in the well and a thick unit of rich source rocks which together prove the presence of an active petroleum system in taats basin.
petro matad’s initial exploration campaign in block xx consisted of re-processing existing seismic data and acquisition of 2d and 3d seismic surveys and drilling eleven wells (2010/11) on the davsan tolgoi structural high with hydrocarbon shows being encountered however no commercial discovery was made.
re-processing of 2d seismic data and access to the overlap of petrochina’s acquired 3d seismic data into the northern part of the block significantly reduced the uncertainty on possible extensions of discovered oil into block xx and matured potentially commercial drilling prospects which become the focus of petro matad’s 2019 drilling campaign.
to the southwest, prospective but frontier basins had been identified on co**** 2d seismic and gravity data on trend and with a similar stratigraphic and structural style to the proven systems in adjacent erlian basin of china. of particular interest was t