By OGJ editors
HOUSTON, Oct. 10 -- Heritage Oil Corp., London, has temporarily suspended drilling at its Kingfisher-1 exploration well on Block 3A in Uganda in preparation for a testing program.
The production test, expected to begin in about 30 days, is scheduled to take about 3 weeks.
Heritage plans to test as many as four intervals in the well. The intervals have a total net pay of 37 m in a stacked sand and shale sequence typical of the Albert Graben basin.
Kingfisher-1 has been drilled to 2,125 m, and wireline logs and formation pressure testing and sampling have shown encouraging indications of hydrocarbons, Heritage said.
The well encountered hydrocarbons in a section above the primary objective, and drilling to the primary objective is scheduled to resume after this initial testing has been completed.
It could take an additional 60 days to reach the target depth of 3,000-4,000 m.
Kingfisher-1 is the first of a possible two-well initial drilling program on Block 3A, for which Heritage is the operator with a 50% interest; Tullow Oil PLC owns the remaining interest (OGJ Online, July 21, 2006).
