Corcel plc found “significant” water production with oil shows and nominal oil saturation levels from clean-up operations using nitrogen at the TO-14 well within the Tobias field, onshore Angola.
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Partner and operator Sonangol has now completed initial well test efforts at the well while engineering work continues.
Nitrogen shortages in Luanda have prompted Sonangol to move to test TO-13, drilled in a section of the reservoir and field considered to be the least drained, said Corcel.
Mobilisation of equipment is expected to take approximately seven days after which formal testing will begin.
Subject to a successful well test at TO-13 and engineering studies, Sonangol intends to return to TO-14 and continue well clean-up and testing operations.
Corcel executive chairman Antoine Karam added: “With TO-13 testing shortly to commence, we will soon have an additional data set to aid in our efforts to both produce commercial oil in the short term and to reactivate and build out the Tobias field over the longer term.
“The company and its technical team remain buoyant regarding the ongoing potential of our Angolan interests in the Kwanza Basin.”