RE: Tomorrow23 Apr 2023 13:31
1/ Given these encouraging observations, it has been decided to conduct open hole swabbed flow testing over the zone between 293 and 400 metres drilled depth. Preparations for testing operations are underway.
Following testing operations, which are expected to run over the coming weekend, ...
It should be noted that the end of Ramadan, Eid al Fitr, occurs tonight, Friday 21st April 2023, and may affect operational timings over the coming weekend. (RNS 21/04/23)
2/ Pinarova-1, located 6 km north of the Basur-1 oil discovery, is designed to test a working hypothesis, supported by well and seismic data, that the active 41.7° API light oil seep found last summer in a seismic shot hole above the Pinarova structure, is directly fed by and connected to an underlying light oil accumulation of some 9 km(2) areal extent within the Hoya limestones, lying around 300-645 metres below surface (see RNS of 11(th) January 2023 and 30(th) June 2022). (RNS 18/04/23)
3/ If the shallow play is successful here it will be followed by a second shallow well in the year ... (p15 of AME's 2022 annual report)