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Tuesday, April 10, 2018
Panoro Energy and its partner BW Offshore have successfully drilled and completed the first development well, DTM-2H, on the Tortue field (Turtle). The field is located within Gabon’s Dussafu PSC.
The drilling of the DTM-2H oil production well commenced in late January 2018 and was successfully completed with no safety-related incidents, on schedule and within budget.
Interpretation of the logging results indicates that the well was entirely consistent with pre-drill prognosis and objectives. DTM-2H was drilled and completed as a horizontal production well in the Dentale D6 reservoir and encountered a long horizontal section of oil saturated Dentale D6 sandstone. The well has been suspended pending arrival and hook up to the FPSO in the second half of the year.
Additionally, while drilling through the shallower Gamba and upper Dentale reservoir section, a gross 37-meter hydrocarbon column was encountered with a total of 28 meters of net pay. The Gamba reservoir is the target of the upcoming second horizontal production well DTM-3H.
The rig will now move to drill the DTM-3 well, which is an appraisal well on the northwest of the Tortue field. Following this, the horizontal oil production well, DTM-3H, will be drilled and completed in the Gamba sandstone. The drilling operations are expected to take until the end of June.
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