China

By OGJ editors
HOUSTON, Aug. 25 – Sunwing Energy Ltd. has spudded the Yixin-2 well on the 1,031-sq mile Zitong gas exploration block in China’s Sichuan Province.

Yixin-2 is a twin well 100 m from Yixin-1, which flowed gas in 2007 before surface equipment failed during testing. The wells target gas in fractured reservoirs.

Sunwing, a subsidiary of Ivanhoe Energy Inc., Calgary, will drill Yixin-2 to 4,200 m at a cost of $8.5 million.

Meanwhile, Sunwing has cemented 9-5/8-in. casing to 3,018 m at the Zitong-1 well, which is to be drilled to 4,500 m to target another gas structure.