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Thursday, February 6, 2014
Kuwait Energy, Dover Investments, and Beach Energy’ El Salmiya-3 well on the Abu Sennan concession in Egypt was completed as a Cretaceous Abu Roash ‘C’ Formation producer. The well was designed to appraise the oil discovery made in July in the lower Cretaceous Kharita Formation, however, it encountered hole problems.
The well encountered approximately eight meters of net oil pay in the Abu Roash ‘C’, of which a six-meter interval was perforated. During the flow test the reservoir achieved a rate of 4,800 bpd of crude (plus 6 Mmscf/d, and no water) through a 64/64” choke. The reservoir is currently undergoing a ‘flow after flow’ testing program to determine the optimum choke size to produce the well.
This result underlines the stacked potential of the El Salmiya field, which is now producing from the Abu Roash ‘C’, the Abu Roash ‘E’ and the Kharita Formation. The drilling rig is currently rigging up to spud the next well in the program, the El Salmiya-4, which will further appraise the extent of the Abu Roash reservoirs, as well as the Bahariya and Kharita Formation discoveries.
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