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Wednesday, June 20, 2018
Rockhopper Exploration updated its operations in Egypt. The company revealed that its production at Abu Sennan is averaging 4,000 boepd year to date. Rockhopper has a 22% interest.
The company said an active program for the concession has been agreed for 2018 including the drilling of one exploration well on Prospect S, two development wells and a water injection program targeting the Al Jahraa field.
A drilling rig has been contracted and is expected to arrive at the concession shortly. The first well is anticipated to spud in the last week of June once rig up and all inspections are completed. It is currently planned that the two development wells will be drilled first (Al Jahraa-6 and Al Jahraa-11), followed by the exploration well at Prospect S.
In addition to increasing production from the Abu-Roash reservoirs, Al Jahraa-6 has been designed to test a deeper exploration target in the Bahariya to test good quality, water wet sands encountered in Al Jahraa-1, but in an up-dip location.
Prospect S is an exploration target in the adjacent fault block to the Al Jahraa field. It has a similar tilted fault block trap and is targeting the same Abu Roash reservoirs that produce at Al Jahraa.
The water injection project is progressing well and injection is expected to commence in early July. The operator has performed the hydrotest for the new line from the water injection station to the Al Jahraa-9 injection well. Preparations for installation of all the necessary equipment are in the final stages. The development program at the Al Jahraa field is designed to increase reserves and field production rates.
On the El Qa’a Plain the Raya-1X commitment well was spud on June 17. This well is targeting the Nukhul Formation reservoir, known from the Gulf of Suez, in a tilted fault block structure, close to where oil has been tested from the same formation.
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