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Tuesday, October 22, 2013
Kinetiko Energy saw its KA-06PT well successfully flow gas over an initial period of 12 days at a rate of 10 Mcf/d on its Amersfoort project in South Africa. The company said that the well was totally unstimulated with an uncased (cased from surface but uncased over the target coals and sandstones ‘Barefoot’) completion over a 222-meter test zone of sandstones, coaly mudstones, and coals.
Gas pressure was noted during drilling and flow has been consistent since a down hole pump was set and water production commenced. Gas flow is currently limited by water extraction and a certified stabilized flow is expected to be achieved over a prolonged period of gas flow and water extraction.
Kinetiko has now achieved gas flows from five out of six production test wells drilled on its northern exploration right 56ER on the Amersfoort Project. All wells are barefoot and are unstimulated. Gas commenced flowing from the five successful wells as soon as water levels began to be lowered by down hole pumping. The sixth hole failed due to downhole conditions. Two of the five holes continue to be flow tested (KA03PTR and KA06PT). The other three have been shut in awaiting a decision on further testing in their vicinity.
The rapid and often spontaneous on set of gas from the five flowing wells is considered to be indicative of gas flowing mainly from conventional gas accumulations in the sandstones above the coals. Optimized flow of seam gas from the coals is not expected to be achieved until multiple wells are drilled in test locations, which effectively lowers the hydrostatic pressure over a more significant area of coal seams.
This current hole KA-06PT was the first of 3 holes in the current exploration work program. It is anticipated that the two remaining holes will complete testing by the end of November.
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