By OGJ editors
HOUSTON, Oct. 11 -- Vintage Petroleum Inc., Tulsa, has tested 43° gravity oil from the subsalt Jurassic Upper Lam formation in An Nagyah field in Yemen.
An Nagyah-17 on Block S-1 is the fifth horizontal well drilled in the field. It reached a TD of 6,779 ft and was completed in 1,887 ft of gross oil-bearing Lam section.
The interval was tested at a stabilized, water-free rate of 3,250 b/d of oil and 1.8 MMcfd of gas flowing at 480 psi tubing pressure through a 48/64-in. choke. Two additional wells will be drilled this year.
The rig will move 2 miles to the An Nagyah-18 well location to drill a horizontal Lower Lam development well.
The field's production is being carried via a recently completed 18-mile pipeline to a nearby facility for processing and on to an export terminal (OGJ, July 25, 2005, Newsletter).
The pipeline is currently transporting 10,200 gross b/d of oil. The field's production is expected to increase to 11,000-12,000 gross b/d of oil by the end of the month.
