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Thursday 19 July, 2018
Frontera Resources
Operations Update
RNS Number : 1319V
Frontera Resources Corporation
19 July 2018
19 July 2018
Frontera Resources Corporation
("Frontera" or "the Company")
Operations Update
Frontera Resources Corporation (AIM: FRR), the European focused oil and gas exploration and production company, is pleased to provide update regarding its operations at Block 12 in Georgia.
Well T-39
As previously announced by the Company on 29 June 2018, the well T-39, the third well of the three-well drilling and testing campaign at the Company's Taribani complex situated within the Block 12 license in Georgia, has been sidetracked from the existing wellbore and drilled to a vertical depth of 3056m into the Miocene aged Eldari B formation. Total net pay of 132m has been calculated for penetrated four oil bearing sandstones, Zones 9, 14, 15 and 19.
On 4 July 2018, Extended Well Testing ("EWT") commenced at T-39 well, by perforation of 21m interval of Zone 19, situated between 2970m and 3000m. After a well clean out, the well started to flow light ( 41.5 API), sweet crude oil together with wet gas and, under natural flow, achieved following production rates: 529 bbls/d of oil and 600,000 scf/d of gas using an 8/64" chock size, 347 bbls/d of oil and 425,000 scf/d of gas using an 7/64" chock size and 250 bbls/d of oil and 350,000 scf/d of gas through 6/64" chock, demonstrating excellent well deliverability. The Company anticipates that production rates from future development wells may be significantly higher.
The CPR volume estimates of 14.8 million barrels of recoverable oil from Zone 19 and 36.5 million barrels of recoverable oil from Zones 20, 23 and 25 of the Eldari B formation, situated between 3056m and 3350m interval support the significant potential of the Eldari B formation.
The 300m interval below Zone 19 was previously penetrated during the drilling of the Niko-1 well, the first well drilled by the Company in Block 12, Georgia. Testing of the interval confirmed the presence of oil and gas bearing Miocene aged marine sandstones with good reservoir properties, flowing light sweet oil and wet natural gas at a commercial volumes.
Gareji formation, situated below the Eldari B reservoir in the Taribani field is estimated to contain 3.2 Trillion Cubic Feet of recoverable gas according to the CPR estimates.
Well Ud-2
As previously announced by the Company on 8 May 2018, Extended Well Testing ("EWT") at Ud-2 well, situated in Mtsare Khevi Gas Complex of Block 12 in Georgia, commenced on 21 April 2018.
The Company perforated and with 57 tons of proppant mechanically stimulated 9.5m out of gr