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Tuesday, January 13, 2015
Gulfsands Petroleum saw its Dardara Southeast1 well’s on perforating, completion, and clean up operations conclude. The well is located on Morocco’s Rharb Center Permit in the north of the country.
Following an initial three-hour well clean-up flow period, the well was fully unloaded of completion fluids to a 100% gas stream. During a subsequent six-hour flow period the well flowed at an average gas rate of 7.1 Mmcf/d on a 32/64th” choke with a stable well head pressure of 1,230 pounds per square inch, and with no associated formation water production or sand production.
The well is to be suspended as a future gas production well and the COFOR drilling rig will move to the Douar Ouled Balkhair (DOB-1) drilling location, which will be spud later this month.
Operations on the DOB-1 well are expected to take 28 days in total. Subject to finalization of arrangements with ONHYM, the company anticipates that the DRC-1 well can be connected to existing local infrastructure so that production of gas for sale can commence in the coming months.
Mahdi Sajjad, CEO of Gulfsands said “We are very pleased with the flow result from well DRC-1, the performance of which is consistent with the apparent excellent quality of the reservoir observed from drilling and wire line log information. We look forward to receiving the results from our next exploration well in the Rharb Center Permit over the next few weeks.”
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