Predator Provides Update on its Morocco Phase 1 Rigless Testing Program

Tuesday, February 20, 2024

Predator Oil & Gas Holdings has provided an update on its Phase 1 rigless testing program onshore Morocco. The Phase 1 rigless testing program was designed to confirm potential formation damage caused by heavy drilling muds used whilst drilling and estimate the minimum depth of penetration of drilling mud into the potential reservoir formations.

The Phase 1 rigless testing operations commenced on February 10 after arrival at the well site of the explosives required for the perforating guns and allowing for adverse weather conditions caused by severe gusts of wind that prevented crane work to ameliorate.

All four zones in MOU-1 and MOU-3 to be tested were perforated and operations were completed on 19 February 2024 with the crews and equipment being demobilized. Operations took 10 days versus the pre-testing forecast of up to 14 days.

For all four zones tested the under-sized 111/16” perforating guns failed to penetrate beyond the zone of formation damage caused by the necessity to use heavy drilling muds while drilling.

Gas analysis of isotube gas samples from MOU-3

Seven gas samples collected in isotubes in MOU-3 whilst drilling at measured depths of 446, 508, 555, 750, 817, 846 and 1395 metres have now been analyzed by Applied Petroleum Technology (UK) Ltd. (“APT”) in their Oslo laboratory. Gas composition is in the range 98.04 to 99.57% methane, making it ideal for a Compressed Natural Gas development with minimum processing. Isotope analysis indicates the gas is biogenic in origin.

Phase 2 rigless testing program

The results of the Phase 1 rigless testing program allows the design parameters for the Sandjet testing program to be set with a higher degree of confidence in relation to achieving key objectives as follows:

• to penetrate sufficiently beyond the formation damage: and
• to perforate multiple potential reservoir zones recognized by NuTech but for which conventional wireline logs may be adversely impacted by invasion of drilling mud.
• Conventional larger 27/8” perforating guns are modelled by a third party to penetrate 25 – 28” into a formation, beyond the zone of formation damage. Sandjet design parameters will be modelled to achieve this minimum objective.

Additional background information and forward plans for Phase 2 can be found here in the full Predator release.

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