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Update on Wressle-1 Well Testing

9 Feb 2015 07:00

RNS Number : 3408E
Egdon Resources PLC
09 February 2015
 

 

 

9 February 2014

EGDON RESOURCES PLC

("Egdon" or "the Company")

 

Update on Wressle-1 Well Testing - Results of Ashover Grit Flow Test

 

Egdon Resources plc (AIM:EDR) is pleased to provide an update on the ongoing well test operations at the Wressle-1 oil discovery in licence PEDL180 located to the East of Scunthorpe, where Egdon operates with a 25% interest.

Test operations have now been completed on the Ashover Grit reservoir, the first of three potentially hydrocarbon bearing zones identified in the well. An interval of 9.5 metres was perforated (2006.1 to 2015.6 metres measured depth) and following an initial "clean-up" flow, free flowing oil production rates equivalent to 80 barrels of oil per day ("bopd") were achieved during a 16 hour main flow period along with 47 thousand cubic feet of gas per day. No appreciable volumes of water were observed. The oil is of good quality with a gravity of 39-40o API.

Down-hole pressure data, recorded during the main flow and subsequent shut-in build-up period, will now be analysed to evaluate the nature of the reservoir permeability to determine the increased production rates that could be achieved during pumped production.

The Ashover Grit interval will now be isolated with a bridge-plug and test operations will continue on two further discrete zones, the Wingfield Flags and Penistone Flags, where hydrocarbons are indicated from log data and gas chromatograph analysis. We will provide further updates as and when results are known from these intervals.

Given the encouraging free-flow test results from the Ashover Grit it is intended to undertake a longer term pumped production test subsequent to the current test programme being completed.

Commenting on the Ashover Grit flow test results, Mark Abbott Managing Director of Egdon Resources said;

"These are very encouraging results, with free-flowing rates of 80 bopd of good quality oil from the first zone tested. We now look forward to the results from two further intervals which could add further substantial production potential to that demonstrated from the Ashover Grit.

During this period of reduced oil prices, the low development and operating costs of onshore UK production means that discoveries such as Wressle remain commercially attractive and we look forward to progressing plans for a longer term pumped production test on the Ashover Grit and any of the other zones which show potential."

 

For further information please contact:

 

Egdon Resources plc

Mark Abbott, Jerry Field 01256 702 292

 

Buchanan

Richard Darby, Anna Michniewicz 020 7466 5000

 

Nominated Adviser and Broker - Cantor Fitzgerald Europe

David Porter, Sarah Wharry (Corporate Finance) 020 7894 7000

Richard Redmayne (Corporate Broking)

 

Joint Broker - VSA Capital Limited

Andrew Monk (Corporate Broking) 020 3005 5000

Andrew Raca (Corporate Finance)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Notes to Editors:

 

The Wressle Oil Discovery

The Wressle Prospect was defined on proprietary 3D seismic data, which was acquired by Egdon in February 2012. The structure is located on trend with the producing Crosby Warren oil field and the Broughton-B1 oil discovery, both to the immediate northwest, and the Brigg-1 oil discovery to the immediate southeast. All contain oil in various different sandstone reservoirs within the Upper Carboniferous succession. The pre-drill gross mean Prospective Resources at Wressle, as calculated by Egdon, were estimated to be 2.1 million barrels of oil. This will be updated following the results of the current test operations.

The Wressle-1 well reached a total depth (TD) of 2240 metres measured depth (MD) (1814 metres true vertical depth below OS datum (TVDSS)) on 23 August 2014. Elevated mud gas readings were observed over large parts of the interval from the top of the Penistone Flags reservoir target (1831.5 metres MD) to TD.

The well was logged using measurement whilst drilling (MWD) logging tools run on the drill string. Petrophysical evaluation of the log data has indicated the presence of potential hydrocarbon pay in three main intervals;

· Penistone Flags - up to 19.8 metres measured thickness (15.9 metres vertical thickness)

· Wingfield Flags - up to 5.64 metres measured thickness (5.1 metres vertical thickness)

· Ashover Grit - up to 6.1 metres measured thickness (5.8 metres vertical thickness)

The interests in the Wressle-1 well are:

 

Egdon Resources U.K. Limited 25.00% (Operator)

Celtique Energie Petroleum Limited 33.33%

Europa Oil & Gas Limited 33.34%

Union Jack Oil plc 8.33%

 

Operations at this site will not involve the process of hydraulic 'fracking' for shale gas.

Egdon Resources plc

 

Egdon Resources plc (LSE: EDR) is an established UK-based exploration and production company primarily focused on onshore exploration and production in the hydrocarbon-producing basins of the UK and France.

 

Egdon currently holds interests in thirty four licences in the UK and France and has an active programme of exploration, appraisal and development within its balanced portfolio of oil and gas assets. Egdon is an approved operator in both the UK and France.

 

Egdon was formed in 1997 and listed on AIM in December 2004.

 

In accordance with the AIM Rules - Note for Mining and Oil and Gas Companies, the information contained in this announcement has been reviewed and signed off by the Managing Director of Egdon Resources plc Mark Abbott, a Geoscientist with over 26 years' experience.

 

Evaluation of potential recoverable hydrocarbons has been assessed in accordance with 2007 Petroleum Resources Management System prepared by the Oil and Gas Reserves Committee of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) and reviewed and jointly sponsored by the World Petroleum Council (WPC), the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) and the Society of Petroleum Evaluation Engineers (SPEE).

 

 

 

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