Neptune Energy has started drilling its operated Adorf Z17 gas appraisal well to a depth of some 4,600m in Georgsdorf, northwest Germany.
OPERATIONS
Rig operator KCA Deutag expects to reach the target depth in October 2022.
KCA Deutag will remove an estimated 1,000 tonnes of CO2 emissions from the drilling operation by using power from the grid instead of diesel generators.
Neptune’s managing director in Germany, Andreas Scheck, said that the Adorf Carboniferous field development was one of Neptune’s most promising activities in the country, where the company aimed to increase its business.
PLANS
Neptune plans to drill a fourth well – Adorf Z18 – from the same well pad in Q4 2022.
Construction of a modern processing plant for treatment of the natural gas at the site in Georgsdorf will begin in the second half of 2022.
ADORF
The Adorf Carboniferous gas field was discovered in 2020 and the first well, Adorf Z15, brought into production in October the same year.
The second well, Adorf Z16, increased Neptune’s production from the licence to around 4,500 boepd earlier this year.
Neptune Energy owns 100% of the Adorf Carboniferous gas field.