RE: Low cost drills where to next?3 Sep 2019 10:01
We have two wells + four wells on Horse Hill. The interesting this is that the second for the first two wells is for Kimmeridge horizontal so with the additional data required on Kimmerdige and planning for four new wells about to be received will we now drill additional horizontals into Portland before Kimmeridge? After Horse hill is flowing the forward plan has already been set out:
We have selected three drilling sites on the Isle of Wight and plan this summer to submit the first planning application for an appraisal drilling and extended well test campaign. An application for a further exploration well on an Arreton look-alike exploration prospect will follow shortly afterwards. It is our intention to ensure our drilling operations take place during the autumn and winter to avoid the island's tourist season
Isle of Wight PEDL331: Drilling of the Arreton-3/3z appraisal well and extended flow test is now scheduled to commence in Autumn 2020, subject to the grant of necessary regulatory consents.
Arreton South and North prospects contain aggregate P50 Portland oil in place of 77.2 mmbbl.
UKOG's subsurface team have also recently identified a further large undrilled anticlinal structure, the Arreton East Prospect... many times larger than both the Arreton oil discovery and Arreton South prospect combined.
Following completion of Arreton-3/3z, the Company currently plans to proceed directly to drill Arreton South, and if regulatory permissions are in place, to proceed directly to drill Arreton East in the winter of 2020/21. Autumn/Winter drilling is designed deliberately to avoid the island's tourist season.
PEDL143 "A24" Prospect
A direct geological look-alike to the Company's Horse Hill oil field. Multiple potential new drilling sites outside the nearby Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty are under evaluation and drilling is now scheduled to follow directly after the completion of the Company's 9-well 2019/2020 drilling programme, subject to the grant of necessary regulatory approvals
Loxley-1/Godley Bridge gas appraisal well
Planning application submitted to SCC in early June 2019 and we expect to receive a decision before year-end. It is planned that the appraisal pilot hole, horizontal sidetrack and testing programme can commence following further production drilling at Horse Hill. Whilst Loxley is primarily an appraisal well within an accumulation containing a significant gross gas in place estimated at around 60 billion cubic feet, the plan also includes a deeper test of the underlying deeply buried Kimmeridge section lying within the largest untested Kimmeridge feature in the Weald Basin.