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Thursday, June 7, 2018
Niger has another discovery under its belt with drilling on the R3/R4 PSC Area by Savannah Petroleum. The UK firm drilled the Amdigh-1 exploration well and based on preliminary results the well is an oil discovery.
Preliminary results based on the interpretation of the available data set (which includes wireline logs, fluid sampling and pressure data) indicate that the well has encountered a total estimated 22 meters of net oil-bearing reservoir sandstones in the E1 and E2 reservoir units within the primary Eocene Sokor Alternances objective. Wireline logs indicate the reservoir properties to be good to excellent quality and the available pressure data indicates light oil, which is consistent with offset wells along trend and the depth/API trend observed across the basin. Oil samples from both the E1 and E2 reservoir units have been taken and returned to surface using wireline testing equipment.
The well was drilled by the GW 215 Rig to a total measured depth of 2,469 meters and encountered the main objective targets at, or near, their prognosed depths.
The well took a total of 24 days to reach target depth, and all operations are expected to be completed within 33 days of spud. No significant geological or drilling hazards were encountered.
The Amdigh-1 is being suspended for possible future re-entry and the rig has being moved to the next well location 12 km away from the Amdigh-1. Savannah will then spud the Kunama-1 well. The rig move is expected to take between 10-15 days.
Once all the wells in Savannah’s program are complete the company will move to conduct production tests on them as part of a batch campaign using a dedicated test rig.
Following testing, a downhole completion assembly to Amdigh-1 will be installed so as to enable the well to function as a production well in the future.
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