CNOOC gauges Yinggehai basin HP/HT gas find

April 20, 2012

CNOOC Ltd. said it has made a natural gas discovery in a high-pressure high-temperature reservoir at the Dongfang 13-2 well in the western South China Sea offshore western Hainan Island in China.

Alan Petzet

CNOOC Ltd. said it has made a natural gas discovery in a high-pressure high-temperature reservoir at the Dongfang 13-2 well in the western South China Sea offshore western Hainan Island in China.

The 13-2 well went to a total depth of 3,168 m in 65 m of water in the northern part of the central sag of the Yinggehai Tertiary basin. It encountered a combined 35 m of pay and flowed at an average 42.4 MMcfd of gas from undisclosed formations.

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Alan Petzet | Chief Editor Exploration

Alan Petzet is Chief Editor-Exploration of Oil & Gas Journal in Houston. He is editor of the Weekly E&D Newsletter, emailed to OGJ subscribers, and a regular contributor to the OGJ Online subscriber website.

Petzet joined OGJ in 1981 after 13 years in the Tulsa World business-oil department. He was named OGJ Exploration Editor in 1990. A native of Tulsa, he has a BA in journalism from the University of Tulsa.