RE: Horeshill oil sales27 Jan 2022 11:24
"either (a) screwed the well downhole, or (b) found that the downhole pressure is rubbish given the geology. To support (b), did they not have downhole pressure sensors installed to give them the data to help establish when they "could" return to the Kim?"
They seemed to be doing OK for quite a while on the Kimm - it really did flow (unlike Broadford Bridge) so I doubt they screwed up the reservoir. A lot of published technical discussion around the whole Kimm Play was to do with the extent of pressure connectivity and pressure support in a rather unknown reservoir.
The odds are they drained all the oil that was (easily) moveable over the 18 months or so of the EWT - declining pressures would have told them they had a problem a long time before they stopped. No doubt a lot of studies were carried out and we can guess that the costs of doing something, or even completing it as a dual producer, were not attractive .
So unattractive they went off to Turkey instead.