Fantastic15 Feb 2022 11:01
I am not sure it's been understood how difficult it is to tell you have over 1000ft of "high quality light oil encountered across the entire section." Without open hole logging. IF the reservoir was marginal you simply couldn't make this kind of statement, also to describe the reservoir as being superior to the fully logged talitha just using lwd would indicate a magnitude better.
It seems obvious that the cold weather(so cold humans can struggle to survive) combined with a less stable upper section gives them two options, the first is to clean the hole to enable open hole logging, which carry 's a degree of risk, or to simple skip that and concrete and case the hole, then perform cased hole logging.
There isn't much the open hole can give you except cuttings and fluid samples. But if they have so much evidence of light oil flowing anyway, it becomes largely redundant. Especially if you're going to flow test anyway, by perferating the casing and fracking.
All the decisions indicate how confident they are.