Gas is still in play22 Jul 2018 11:13
UD2 was an old well that ZaZa took a chance with a little work may stand up and deliver good data from various zones. In part it fully delivered but looking at the bore size and age of the Russian cementation this was never intended as a production well. So hence the O&G term Plug and abandoned - BP do this all of the time to test wells or old pipes. However, as ZaZa indicates they could side track higher up the bore to gather pressure and samples but I expect that everything they need to know about this well has been discovered. What UD2 did confirm is that the field is a high quality, high pressure, high volume asset that will need the proper drill and casement to unleash the beast. This currently is above the means of FRR (2 yrs if funding from oil revenue) but not of a major who would drill several located wells and balanced the pressure prior distribution.
FRR have Oil in play that each zone seems to be producing good quantities (people seem to forget that the flow rates are associated to a zone and there are several zones in play) and have the data that will deliver a very large gas play so talk of this being a failure is idiotic the reverse is true.
A bonus here is that the oil drills are finding good quanity of gas too.
So we have NO dusters, FRR have a great deal of valuable data and the A team is still in place and we are selling oil. All the info is there verified by the Nomad - read it and DOYR.