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Friday, November 22, 2013
Mart Resources, Midwestern Oil & Gas (operator), and SunTrust Oil Co, partners on the Umusadege field, saw initial flow rates from the UMU-11. Mart reported that the UMU-11 saw good flow rates from more than one sand during testing.
The UMU-11 well encountered 294 ft of gross oil pay in 13 sands. The well was intentionally drilled to a shallower depth than UMU-9 and UMU-10, therefore did not encounter the deeper sands from previous wells. The sands selected for completion in the UMU-11 well were the IX, XIIb, and XIIIb sands, with combined gross oil pay of 84 ft. Using dual tubing string technology, two of these zones can be produced separately and simultaneously. The cleanup and extended flow tests have been completed on the XIIb and XIIIb sands, with the IX sand still to be tested.
The testing of the XIIb sand yielded a stabilized rate of 3,650 bpd. During the test of the XIIIb sand, the well flowed at a stabilized rate of 1,520 bpd.
One UMU-11 well test remains to be conducted, being the individual testing of the IX sand. All sands have been initially tested on restricted choke setting during cleanup. Following the cleanup operations, each sand will undergo multi-rate flow testing on various choke sizes.
Wade Cherwayko, CEO of Mart Resources, stated: “The initial flow rates from UMU-11 are some of the best we have had to date, in particular from the XIIb sand. This establishes the capability of the field to deliver additional production when the pipeline constraints are removed.”
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