By OGJ editors
HOUSTON, Mar. 15 -- Oilexco Inc., London, said a second appraisal well has defined the Brenda oil find in the UK Central North Sea to be a "stratigraphic trap of significant proportion."
The company plans to production test the 15/25b-8 well, which intersected 56 ft of high quality oil pay in a Paleocene Forties channel sand with excellent but unspecified reservoir characteristics. Oilexco plans to perforate an interval in the upper part of the reservoir.
The 15/25b-8 well is the second appraisal well to the Brenda discovery, originally made in 1990 by the 15/25b-3 well. The 15/25b-6 well, the first well drilled by Oilexco, tested 2,980 b/d of 40° gravity oil through a 40/64 in. choke under stable flowing conditions from the Forties sandstone in late January (OGJ, Mar. 1, 2004, Newsletter). Oilexco identified other appraisal locations from seismic interpretation to further define the accumulation's limits and reserves.
The discovery is on License P1042, Block 15/25b, in the Outer Moray Firth. Oilexco holds 100% working interest.
