Paleo Resources Inc., Calgary, has identified two suspended wells it operates in the Joffre D-3 B Pool in Alberta as residual-hydrocarbon recompletion candidates after testing oil and gas in a third well.
During a 72-hr test, the Paleo 9-22 well flowed naturally at average rates of 231.27 b/d of oil and 462.63 Mcf of gas with 63.07 b/d of water from perforations at the top of the Late Devonian Leduc formation at 2,163-67 m.
The well established the current water contact in the Leduc D-3 B Pool reservoir and confirmed the remaining thickness of the oil column by electric logs and production testing.
The company said the two suspended wells penetrated the remaining oil column but were perforated below the residual 12.36-m oil column.
It plans to seek permits for and install expanded sour service production facilities to handle oil and gas from the wells.
Logs indicated an earlier Paleo Resources well on the Joffre B Pool lease, 103/09-22-039-26W4M/0, penetrated 5 gross m of residual hydrocarbon-bearing Leduc formation. The well encountered the top of porosity in the formation 7.36 m below the highest well drilled in the field.
The operator said Joffre B Pool wells have produced 6 million bbl of oil and 9 bcf of gas from the Leduc formation since 1986.
