Africa-focused Chariot Restricted has made a pure gasoline discovery at its OBA-1 nicely on the Dartois prospect onshore Morocco.
The invention resulted from a two-well drilling marketing campaign on the Loukus Onshore license, the place Chariot is the operator with a 75 % stake, and the Nationwide Workplace of Hydrocarbons and Mines (ONHYM) owns 25 %.
The OBA-1 nicely was safely and effectively drilled, on time and on funds, to a last measured depth of two,956 ft (901 meters) via the goal reservoirs, Chariot stated in a information launch.
A complete analysis of the nicely information, together with wireline logs, cuttings and gasoline information confirmed the presence of reservoirs over an interval of roughly 656 ft (200 meters) gross thickness, equivalent to the pre-drill targets, the corporate famous.
Chariot stated that inside the reservoir, “an approximate [230 feet] 70-meter gross interval of major curiosity has been recognized containing elevated resistivities coincident with elevated mud gasoline readings, indicating potential gasoline pays, with no water-bearing reservoirs recognized”.
Chariot will conduct additional post-drill evaluation in preparation for nicely movement testing, which is able to decide the nicely productiveness and the gasoline useful resource potential of the invention. The nicely will now be suspended to permit future rigless movement testing operations and potential use as a producer nicely and the rig will then be demobilized.
“We’re very happy to report the profitable drilling of the OBA-1 nicely on the Dartois prospect which now concludes Chariot’s first onshore drilling marketing campaign in Morocco and brings with it optimistic end result for the potential of the Dartois space,” Duncan Wallace, Technical Director of Chariot, stated.
“We’ll now combine the great information we have now obtained from each the RZK-1 and OBA-1 wells with just lately reprocessed 3D seismic information to grasp the useful resource potential of the Dartois space, to verify the optimum future work program on the invention and the influence on wider prospectivity throughout the Loukos licence. Our two first wells have each been profitable in confirming our geological mannequin for reservoir distribution and the presence of gasoline which bodes nicely for future exploration exercise,” Wallace continued.
“I wish to thank each our operational crew, who as soon as once more have proven that they’ll drill secure, environment friendly and profitable wells, and ONHYM for his or her ongoing assist and partnership. Our deal with the Loukos licence is to get any business discoveries to first gasoline as rapidly as attainable,” he added.
Wallace additional shared that the corporate is planning an offshore drilling marketing campaign in Morocco’s Anchois gasoline discipline within the third quarter with Energean. Chariot is concentrating on to extend the event to over one trillion cubic ft.
United Kingdom-based Chariot describes itself as an Africa-focused transitional vitality group with enterprise streams in transitional gasoline, transitional energy, and inexperienced hydrogen.
Chariot Transitional Gasoline is targeted on high-value, low-risk gasoline growth tasks in Morocco, a fast-growing rising financial system, with a transparent path to early monetization, supply of free cashflow and materials exploration upside.
Chariot Transitional Energy is targeted on offering aggressive, sustainable and dependable vitality and water options throughout the continent via constructing, producing and buying and selling renewable energy.
Chariot Inexperienced Hydrogen is partnering with TEH2 and the Authorities of Mauritania on the potential growth of a 10-gigawatt inexperienced hydrogen undertaking, Mission Nour in Mauritania.
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