Motely fool28 Apr 2021 10:16
In other encouraging news, 88 Energy said that “initial mapping of additional prospective zones encountered in Merlin-1 [is] encouraging.” It said that these zones “exhibited good shows with potential for pay,” and that “an initial mapping exercise has indicated that these zones may be of similar magnitude in terms of volumetric range as the originally targeted primary zones.”
Further testing would be required to confirm what it is sitting on, it added.
More exciting news
On Tuesday 88 Energy also announced some potentially exciting news concerning its Project Icewine asset in Alaska. It said that it has been observing nearby work by Pantheon Resources on its Talitha-A well. And these results have revealed “additional insights into the wettability of the Kuparuk formation,” the firm noted. These are results that it says may have “positive ramifications” for its own interpretation of the horizon.
88 Energy said its own drilling results at Kuparak had been interpreted “as likely gas condensate or residual oil”. As a consequence, no mapped targets had been identified by the company. However, 88 Energy views those recent Talitha-A results as “highly encouraging regionally for the Kuparuk [and] across Project Icewine.” Its internal geoscience team is therefore now re-assessing Kuparak’s potential.
To round off the release 88 Energy said that “it is also evident that several of the other prospective horizons encountered in Talitha-A, where pay has been interpreted by Pantheon, extend into Project Icewine acreage.”