Pakistan
The ministry reported four oil and natural gas discoveries in Sindh Province.
BP Pakistan Exploration & Production Inc., Islamabad, said its Shah Dino-1 well on Block No. 2468-2 (Badin-III) flowed 760 b/d of oil at 1,100 psi wellhead flowing pressure on a 16/64 in. choke on a drill stem test of an undisclosed formation.
Oil & Gas Development Co. Ltd., Islamabad, made a gas-condensate discovery with its Dars-1 well on the Tando Allah Yar Block. A successful drill stem test produced 350 b/d of 51° gravity condensate and 8.5 MMcfd of gas at a wellhead flowing pressure of 2,090 psi on a 32/64-in. choke. TD is 2,170 m.
Orient Petroleum Inc. (OPI) made a gas-condensate discovery on Block No. 2568-6 (Khipra) with its Siraj South-1 well. It made 400 b/d of condensate and 24.3 MMcfd of gas with 2,450 psi wellhead pressure on a 48/64 in. choke. TD is 3,218 m. OPI also found gas on Block No. 2568-7 (Mirpur Khas) when the Kausar-1 well yielded 24.2 MMcfd at a wellhead flowing pressure of 3,330 psi on a 40/64-in. choke.
UK
The Avington-2 well on PEDL 70 has proven oil in a structure with mapped volumes of oil in place in excess of 100 million bbl, said Egdon Resources (U.K.) Ltd., Odiham, Hampshire.
Operated with a 50% interest by Pentex Oil UK Ltd., the well flowed at unstabilized rates up to 700 b/d of 38° gravity oil from a 530-m horizontal section at about 1,400 m TVD in Middle Jurassic Great Oolite, the same reservoir as in Stockbridge oil field just northwest. Test production is to start in October.
Carless Exploration Ltd. drilled Avington-1 east of Winchester in 1987, penetrating the flank of the structure. That discovery well indicated a 32-m oil column in Great Oolite and oil shows in the overlying Cornbrash sequence, but Carless tested neither formation. The prospect, in the Weald basin, is mapped as a large anticline that covers 23 sq km with 82 m maximum vertical relief.
Egdon, Sterling Resources, YCI, and Northern Petroleum hold interests with Pentex in PEDL 70, and Egdon holds one-third interests in adjacent PEDLs 69 and 110.
Tennessee
Miller Petroleum Inc., Huntsville, Tenn., signed an exploration joint venture with North Coast Energy Inc., Twinsburg, Ohio, to explore a major oil and gas prospect in eastern Tennessee.
The companies plan to drill the northeastern part of what is described as the Eureka structure (OGJ, July 28, 2003, p. 39).
Eureka involves Ordovician and older rocks that are productive elsewhere in eastern Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio, and Virginia and in the Eureka area southwest of Knoxville.
"Knowledgeable geologists have described the large untested prospect as perhaps the largest unexplored structure in the Appalachian region and believe it could be a major hydrocarbon reservoir," Miller said.
"The structure has been verified and defined by seismic evaluation and other geological tools. Interstate pipelines are in close proximity to the prospect, providing ready production and transmission capability if natural gas is discovered," he said.
Location, depth, and formation/objective information were not immediately released.
