RE: Petroleum News4 Feb 2022 11:25
Good Find Brom 08:04
Something to ponder before we move on again with a permit to drill.
What really is the link between Charlie 1 & Talitha A & Theta West 1.
Will HRZ have anything to do with anything? Fracking mentioned by Pantheon.
Anyone aware what they are fracking?
Vertical test wells
Both the Theta West 1 and Talitha A are vertical test wells.
The Charlie-1 well reached its Total Depth of about 11,100 feet on 30 March, having drilled through and logged all of the targets in the well, including the HRZ shale.
The dual listed oil junior drilled seven stacked targets with a total gross mean prospective resource of 1.6 billion barrels (480 million barrels net to 88E) in the Charlie-1 well at its Project Icewine.15 Sept 2020
Pantheon said the objective of winter drilling and testing at Theta West and testing at Talitha is to determine reservoir deliverability - not about maximizing flow rates, as future production wells will be DRILLED HORIZONTALLY, not vertically.
They went down to 9200 feet
Pantheon wants to establish/prove the movability and quality of the oil.
A coiled tubing unit used for flow testing operations will mobilize to the location AFTER FRACKING is finished.
Talitha A testing operations commenced over the weekend of Jan. 22 and 23, and are starting from the lowest formation, the Lower Basin Floor Fan, before proceeding sequentially to the two shallower Slope Fans (which will be tested together) and the Shelf Margin Deltaic horizons.
Talitha A, which was drilled in 2021, encountered five independent oil horizons, including Kuparuk at the deepest level.
The company had a lot of problems in the Kuparuk zone last winter, but Pantheon executives said they think they understand now what went wrong. But with 2 billion barrels to test in the horizons above the Kuparuk, they have elected to drill a well sometime in the future to test the Kuparuk, likely choosing a better location for doing so.
Pantheon said independent “Volatiles Analysis” undertaken by Advanced Hydrocarbon Stratigraphy/Baker Hughes took 416 cuttings during the drilling of Talitha A over a 3,700 foot section covering the five horizons, with each and every sample confirming the presence of oil.
Courtesy of: https://www.oilfieldtechnology.com/drilling-and-production/24012022/pantheon-resources-spuds-theta-west-well-in-alaska/
Prior to relocating to the Theta West #1 location, the Nordic Calista #3 rig completed preparations for testing operations at the Talitha #A well which included a plugging operation on the Kuparuk Zone. The Kuparuk will form the focus of a future well. A Schlumberger fracking unit and the XPRO flow back testing equipment are mobilised and on location. Testing operations commenced over the weekend and will start from the lowest formation, the Lower Basin Floor Fan, before proceeding sequentially to the two shallower Slope Fans (which will be tested together) and the Shelf Margin Deltaic horizons. 2b Continued
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