RE: 88e16 Feb 2024 20:05
sg22, i wrote this for another forum, but it might help you understand a little more about the upcoming 88e flow testing.
hickory 1 drill location is snuggled 1000ft from panrs border, in this location, in the success case it will prove up the reservoir from there to the talitha and pipeline state wells in panr leases.
panr leases are up dip of hickory, so will have improving reservoir quality as they go north
the two migrations set the stage, oil migration and reservoir sand/silt migration. big picture and simplified, sand and silt have migrated from source towards the north, spilling off the land mass into the sea. from there they have formed over the underlying contours, off and including the beach (shelf margin deltaics, or topsets), into deep water but stacked against the beach face cliff (slope fan system), then off the toe of the sfs comes the basin floor fans
if you have ever thrown a handful of dirt into still water, that is the underlying process, the co**** sands drop out first, while the finest of the sediments drift much further out suspended in the water column.
panr have leased from the source to the point at which they conclude the sediments, are too fine and combined with greater burial depth, will mostly be too tight as reservoir rock. to be a commercial quantity, 88e must prove reservoir to the south of the border is also viable
if 88e prove the reservoir to the border is commercially viable, it is fantastic for panr, but 88e still have to drill and prove a step out well, to quantify their down dip section .
oil migration is from underlying source rock shale, the hrz reservoir. 88e have proven this to be bituminous at the icewine location, so may not be as productive in filling the above reservoirs there, that is not to preclude lateral migration as a source of hydro carbon fill.
panr have drilled and flow tested in all reservoirs, so know the quality and quantity is good, while 88e are only flow testing 2 reservoirs, and assuming, (falsely imo) the panr testing in better reservoir will translate to flow in the other zones 88e are not testing
then go to the quantities,
panr have 1 billion barrels of recoverable oil with supporting flow test and independent expert reports,
~500mmbo to come in the ahpun field, which has been flow tested and currently awaiting an ier in q2 of 2024
addition in this quarter of the much better reservoir acquired in the latest lease sales, adding to the kodiak (much of which is conventional, higher porosity)
88e have news on the possible success of the 2 flow tests at hickory, around 125mmbo. while 88e have many irons in the fire, they are either very small (longhorn), or very early in the discovery stage, so consequently very high risk (namibia, leonis, icewine west)
phoenix is the current comparable, in development, it is at the stage panrs reservoirs were at, before they all proved flow, there is risk that the hickory flows will be insufficient to justify development