Polish Oil and Gas Co. (PGNiG) has completed drilling of the Grodzewo-1 well in the municipality of Śrem the central part of in western Poland’s Wielkopolska region. The company’s estimates the well could produce up to 20,000 cu m/year of natural gas.
The well was drilled to 2,940 m TD by PGNiG unit Exalo Drilling SA under in combined exploration and production license No. 29/2001/Ł Śrem-Jarocin under a joint operating agreement signed in 2009 with ORLEN Upstream. PGNiG is operator with 51%.
The well shows the hydrocarbon potential of the region and plans are to continue drilling in the area over the coming year, said Paweł Majewski, president of PGNiG’s management board.
Previous discoveries in the region include Zaniemyśl, Środa Wielkopolska, Roszków, Kromolice and Kromolice Południe, Winna Góra, Lisewo, Komorze and, most recently, Miłosław.
The work is part of PGNiG’s exploration campaign targeting Rotliegend formations in the Polish Lowlands.