Step-out well cased at southern Egypt oil field

Oct. 25, 2010
Dana Gas Egypt and Sea Dragon Energy Inc., Calgary, set pipe and plan to test a potential extension well 4 km southeast of the nearest well in Al Baraka field in southern Egypt’s frontier Kom Ombo basin.

By OGJ editors
HOUSTON, Oct. 25
– Dana Gas Egypt and Sea Dragon Energy Inc., Calgary, set pipe and plan to test a potential extension well 4 km southeast of the nearest well in Al Baraka field in southern Egypt’s frontier Kom Ombo basin.

Logs at the Al Baraka SE step-out well indicate 46 ft of gross pay in the Kom Ombo A and C formations. Total depth is 8,750 ft.

Meanwhile, Sea Dragon reported progress at other wells in Al Baraka field.

Minor oil saturations were observed at the Al Baraka-9 well, which tested noncommercial quantities of oil from the Six Hills E sands. However, petrophysical analysis indicates 50 ft of potential oil pay in the shallower Abu Ballas and Sabaia formations.

The companies recompleted the Al Baraka-5 well to isolate a bottom set of perforations suspected of producing water, installed a bridge plug, and returned the well to production. They plan to rework Al Baraka-6 to isolate water production from the lower Six Hills F-2 sands and recomplete the well in the Six Hills F-1 sands.

Al Baraka field is producing 600-700 b/d of oil, and the completion, workover, and fracturing program now under way is expected to lift output towards an expected yearend target of 2,000 b/d. The two companies hold 50-50 interests in the field.