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Rambo - clean up could take anything from 1 - 3 days maybe longer. All depends on drilling mud / cement / filter cake etc.
see from pics on twitter that the hot oiler is on site so if it hasn't flowed naturally expect a few days for them to run some contingencies to try and get it flowing. Nitrogen / acid / pumps etc. (see from twatter that was said it wasn't flowing)we also don't know if they have just perfed a section to target the oil only or oil and gas. Be good to see some more videos or pictures from twatter to try and get an idea of what stage they are at. Would definitely expect to see some sort of heat haze from the flare stack. unfortunately we are in the hands mother nature now. Gas is an absolute must! oil is a bonus.

Rambo, yes working out what position is optimal for the horizontal section will be key for the B2 well. They want to place that section in the sweet spot if they can find it from B1z testing.

Only a personal opinion in that they don't have a big enough team to look at the planning of the B2 well whilst testing operations still ongoing. There's long lead items to purchase, lots of planning to consider. I expect current ops to carry on until about end of July. That only leaves them 2 months until they would need to spud at start of October as they wont want to be drilling over the xmas period. I would expect the longer horizontal section drilling to take about 8-10 weeks.

Yes he did say that, i also think its the same interview in which he said about putting the wells into production if successful. But who knows, with the track record of the dynamic duo I don't believe anything they say.

"we know we have a huge tank which contains oil and gas" bold statement...

Sachin says aim was for drilling B2 this year 1m42 in. Thou I cannot see it happening until next year.

Rambo, good question. At this stage I am going off the only log they have provided. I am assuming they have chosen this section as the data is by far the best than that of the other sections. Sections can have hydrocarbon shows but the likes of the porosity and saturation could be low. For the section in the log the data for both of these is very good, saturation 4-5x higher than that seen in A2, good contiguous porosity and elevated mud gas readings. Again i'm only guessing as we don't know all the data like they do but if this section has the best data then its 100% the correct section to test. Test the best section first, then work down towards next sections if need be. However this can become a bit more expensive and a lot more planning with zonal isolation equipment.

if you look back to the original path of the B1 well, it encountered hydrocarbon charge down dip but it was decided the data wasn't good enough for a flow test so they side tracked up dip and the data is what we have now from the B1z well.

No problem Rambo.

Yes only 25m section to be perforated. However we do not know the length which they have decided on. Personally i would select the whole 25m to ensure you are connected to as much of the reservoir as possible. If you look closer at the log you could argue that you only need to perforate from 1703md - 1720md, so 17m. The more you perforate across the reservoir the better the production will be.

Rambo23, yes they can certainly do that with both wells. I’m sure Sachin has mentioned this as a possibility in a recent interview. Once they start the horizontal well on the B site it’s likely they would shut that well in on that site thou. Yes lots riding on these tests, not quite a home run yet like many think it is. Data to date all very encouraging thou.

I was reading something last night about the KAF around Yorkshire & how most discoveries have experienced early water breakthrough, leading to impaired gas rates and low recoveries. The water influx is due to a highly mobile, but finite aquifer, which under field production conditions preferentially flows through the high permeability fracture system, bypassing the gas stored in the tighter matrix.

This of course is a concern in wells once the GWC (gas water contact) or OWC (oil water contact) has been identified. However to date at WN this hasn’t been seen on any of the logs. Ideal scenario for us is we have a lovely oil reservoir sitting under a massive gas cap. We know the gas flowed on the A well. Despite others saying oil actually flowed I cannot find anything to back this up.

Hi Rambo,
The way I view it is as below. (some of the steps are unknown)
Rig now on site, 1 week to rig up all equipment and commission. this includes the WT equipment which the lines will be flushed with water to check integrity of the pipes. normally this has to be signed off before commencing.
Recover kill string & tree, install BOP.
Possibly run a scraper assembly to clean up
Circulate out the kill fluid and turn well over to whatever completion fluid they are using.
Run the completion (not sure if any pump going to be within the completion BHA, could try to let it free flow first of all, then if not successful install a pump)
x-refencing the log on the RBD website looks like they need to perforate between 1700md - 1725md.
Another unknown here is what length they will perforate and what the SPF is (Shots per foot of the guns)
should then be some wellhead work to reinstall the tree / rig down the BOP
likely be some slickline work to pull barrier plugs
above should all be completed within a week - so roughly two weeks to starting the actual test, as only working day times until the test commences.
then on to perforating
then it will be on to the testing programme which will include an initial clean up and then monitoring the initial flow and pressure at the wellhead, then various shut ins for pressure build ups and applying various different choke sizes to try gain optimal flow.
no doubt they will have various contingency options if the well doesn't lift, not sure what thou could be thou, nitrogen, acid, pumps etc

I would like to see an RNS for that first initial flow rate and pressure at the wellhead. Not uncommon for operators to release these. Then it will likely be silence until the test is completed in 4 weeks time.

Above process is of course very rough as there's a lot of unknowns - testing on A site should take roughly the same time, however don't be surprised to see it take longer to clean up due to it being left a while.

WRT the B2 horizontal well, i personally cannot see that happening this year. if we get good flow rates for the initial test (i would like to see 4 figures but anything between 400-1000 will do) then we can expect up to 3x of that from the horizontal well.

Don't forget that the B2 well has already been paid for.

Hey Heidi, He’s been saying for ages everyone reckons it’s an offshore asset onshore. Now he’s saying the industry is split!

Sachin is FOS! January fundraiser used to progress WN & Corallian.

WN testing A2, B1Z & drilling of B2 already funded.
4 months after fundraise, issues 1/2 billion shares for more investment in Corallian.

Vox Markets

https://www.**********.co.uk/articles/traders-cafe-with-zak-mir-bulletin-board-heroes-may-19-f13873c/

6mins in for RBD. A decent push to the upside overdue….

Ok so they increased their holding between 8th - 23rd Feb. I was going off the website %age of 4.47% which is obviously out of date. So this update identifies them as holding from the last TR1 update in Feb.

Thats not true thou is it Denny11. When last reported on 8th Feb their holding was 4.47%. Its now 4.75% after the dilution, so they've been increasing their holding.

So its not FIL selling, in fact since 8th Feb they added 0.54% to their holding.

Will we see new TR1's for all other significant share holders now there's been a dilution??

You have only got to look at the SP for EDR, EOG & UJO to see positive impact for a granted permit, yet the Dynamic Diluting Duo fail to tell us our one is approved! Less than 2 weeks to get things moving or there's going to be a lot of disgruntled holders.

WRT to circa 1,000 bopd from WNA i'm not sure about that either but he has been bang on the money so many times. For the flow rates at WN it has to be in the 4 figures. Lets just hope they get the perfs right and don't perforate a small section.

Selling is relentless and strange at this time Uggy. Can't be those from Corallian as they don't get their shares until Friday.

Strange day for trades, only 8 all day so far.

Hopefully that capex comes from WN.

All the media sites are all over the permit news yet silence from the dynamic diluting duo….annoying really as have seen shares go up anything from 5-30% on permit news.
Yet we will likely encounter another red day today.

Just can’t trust the Dynamic Diluting Duo Uggy.

So that's the permit approved a week ago and yet they haven't told us!!