WTF news is upon us again............21 Jan 2026 00:12
''3 December 2025 RNS
The Kazakh authorities have now extended the previous estimation licence covering the Yelemes Deep structure for a further two years during which development work may resume and a further submission may be made for an independent 25 year production licence.
Accordingly, the Group intends now to resume work at Deep Well 803 where oil was previously detected over a 60 meter interval at depths between 3,360 and 3,420 meters.''
I would expect CASP to treat resuming the testing of the 803 Deep Well as a number 1 priority considering it flowed 500 bopd from 15m-16m of the 60m interval above the salt layer. They could have been testing the 60m interval further now so we could see the 15m net pay increased along with an increase in the 500 bopd in the next RNS. They've had circ. 7 weeks to mobilize the rig and start either flow testing, sidetracking the well or drilling down to TD circ. 4,500m or so through the salt layer to the primary target. No doubt we'll soon find out what's happening with it in this weeks WTF RNS.
It's the same with the West Shalva well after knocking on 4 months of drilling, by my calc's they should be way into testing the two intervals of interest having hit TD around the 10th of January, if both the J and T targets flow they could be mixing two different API's? With the Shalva well next door supposedly producing 250 bopd and having a 54% CoS there's a good chance it flows and Carver's waiting for results along with the 803 Deep Well, not forgetting the Block 8 P1 Deep Well sidetrack that was supposed to start in November, we could see all three wells reportedly flowing at the same time, with the elephant in the room the A6 Deep Well successfully treated re removing the rocks/ mud etc. that have prevented it from flowing for years, it's knocking on two months since we were told to 'expect' A6 Deep Well news by 2025 YE, I wouldn't be surprised if they'd pumped a couple of hundred thousand barrels of treatment fluid down there, which can take a few weeks to pump out, fingers crossed on that well flowing.
CASP have drilled 5 deep wells on Block 8 three structures, the A8 Deep Well to 5,300m through the salt layer and flow tested it and the 803 Deep Well with no stuck pipe thus far.
News is imminent and I don't see all four wells being duds, may be one or two are still being worked on when we get the next Op's Update.
Anyway WTF news is here again, hopefully it'll be good news all round.