Cuba
Pebercan Inc., Montreal, technical operator for state Cuba Petroleo on the western part of Block 7, completed another hefty producer in its development of Canasi oil field along the north coast, OGJ Online reported.
Canasi-5, drilled to 3,705 m TD and completed in late 2001, penetrated two successive hydrocarbon pools totaling 1,472 m of gross pay. It flowed 3,500 b/d of oil, bringing Block 7 output to 13,000 b/d of oil, 6,200 b/d of which is net to Pebercan.
Drilling was to start on the sixth well in Canasi field (see map, OGJ, Jan. 7, 2002, p. 38).
United Kingdom
Officials awarded the PEDL 112 and 113 licenses in the 10th landward round.
PEDL 112 went to Northern Petroleum (GB) Ltd., operator, Glenesk Oil Ltd., and Magellan Petroleum (NT) Pty. Ltd. Shell and Fina previously explored the area, extending from Maidstone to Canterbury in Kent.
PEDL 113 on the Isle of Wight went to Black Rock Oil & Gas PLC, operator, Italmin Exploration SRL, Northern, and Magellan. Northern said the license covers the extension of a structure in the north of PEDL 098 with potential traps east of BP PLC-operated Wytch Farm oil field. Northern believes the areas oil source potential.
Louisiana
Petro-Hunt LLC, Dallas, completed a second well from Miocene Planulina 10 sand at Bayou Grosbec field, northern Assumption Parish.
The 1 Egle flowed 20 MMcfd of gas and 928 b/d of condensate on a 20/64 in. choke from perforations at about 17,700 ft, said interest owner Preston Exploration LLC, The Woodlands, Tex.
The 1 Egle is 5,100 ft east of Petro-Hunt's 1 Brownell-Kidd, which has yielded 9.5 bcf and 334,000 bbl of condensate from the zone since May, 2000.
The other two working interest owners are Andex Resources LLC and Southwestern Energy Production Co.
Texas-South
Saxet Energy Ltd., Houston, and The Exploration Co., San Antonio, experienced an unexpected oil flow during drilling at 6,500 ft at the Comanche 1-111 well in Maverick County.
Exploration Co. called the oil rate an "indeterminate quantity." It said the well was expected to produce gas from the Cretaceous Glen Rose formation because it is uncommon to find oil in this formation in the area," in the Maverick basin about 20 miles east of Eagle Pass, Tex. The well is the first drilled on a 95,000-acre lease. Permit depth is 9,000 ft.
The company did not indicate whether the well was under control and said it would work with the operator to "determine the best course of action for continued drilling and completion."
Gulf Coast
A wildcat on North Padre Island encountered at least 50 ft of net gas pay in an outcome partner Novus Petroleum Ltd., Sydney, termed "commercially encouraging."
The BNP Petroleum Corp., Corpus Christi, La Playa-1 well in Kleberg County was sidetracked to TD 11,960 ft and encountered six potentially gas bearing zones in the Marg Tex section, Novus said.
It added, "The total pay logged in these zones, plus the shallower Cib Haz sands, is consistent with Novus's pre-drilling success-case expectations for the entire well in terms of gas pay and reserves."
The joint venture planned to spud Murdock Deep-1 in early March and later return to La Playa to target deeper, as yet unlogged gas sand. Environmentalists are opposing the operations.