Worth reading some of the old texan RNS releases3 Jan 2023 14:18
Same old rubbish being spouted now just in alaska, found loads of oil etc, really hopeful, great prospects, and it comes to nothing.. Just read this old classic. These wells were nightmares, but the way you read this, you would think they had struck gold!
Pantheon Resources PLC Operational Update
30/12/2016 7:00am
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Pantheon Resources PLC
30 December 2016
30 December 2016
Pantheon Resources plc
Operational update
Pantheon Resources plc ("Pantheon" or "the Company"), the AIM-quoted oil and gas exploration and development company with a working interest (of 50%-58%) in several conventional projects located onshore in Tyler & Polk Counties, East Texas, notes recent market speculation and is pleased to provide the following operational update:
VOBM#4 well, Tyler County, East Texas (50% working interest)
The VOBM#4 well has encountered two separate, potentially significant, hydrocarbon-bearing zones before it reached its primary (Eagle Ford sandstone) and secondary (Austin Chalk) targets. For both commercial and operational reasons, it has been decided to test the shallower of these two formations before any further drilling to deeper depths is completed. A lower cost workover rig is being brought in to carry out this testing while the Nabors F-12 rig has relocated to re-enter and complete the VOBM#2 well vertically, as previously announced.
The shallower of the two zones, the Wilcox sandstone, has been a prolific producing formation elsewhere in Texas and was encountered in VOBM#4 at c.11,700 ft depth over an interval exceeding 35ft, which compares extremely favourably to Wilcox analog producing wells. Additionally, a second formation which is both separate and independent from the Wilcox was encountered at below 14,000 ft depth, requiring intermediate casing to be set. This zone, in the highly fractured Navarro carbonate formation, also exhibited significant gas shows over a gross interval exceeding 100 ft during drilling.
In drilling through this second zone, the well suffered mud losses and, in order to section off this highly porous zone, it has proved necessary to set a 7 5/8ths inch casing section sooner than planned. This operation has been completed successfully. As a consequence however, drilling operations to the deeper, more highly pressured Austin Chalk and Eagle Ford sandstone formations have been halted until the potentially productive Wilcox formation can be tested. To continue drilling would have required an additional casing string and the consequent use of smaller tools, increasing the risk of possible future mechanical and/or environmental issues in the higher pressure deeper formations.
Drilling was halted at c.15,150 ft, some 400 ft above the target depth in the Eagle Ford sandstone. A drillable cast