Victoria Oil & Gas PLC Batch Drilling of Two Wells Underway, Cameroon (2359Q)
November 28 2016 - 2:00AM
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RNS Number : 2359Q
Victoria Oil & Gas PLC
28 November 2016
28 November 2016
Victoria Oil & Gas Plc
("VOG" or "the Company")
Batch Drilling of Two Wells Underway, Cameroon
Gaz du Cameroun S.A. (GDC), the Company's Cameroon gas producing
and distributing subsidiary, announces that following spudding of
well La-107 on November 1 2016, it has successfully drilled, cased
and cemented the uppermost, 185/8" section of the well to a depth
of 400 metres. Operations on La-107 were then suspended as planned
and the rig was skidded a distance of 10 metres along the rail
system to the La-108 well location. The 1500 HP Komako 1 drilling
rig, owned and operated by Savannah Oil Services Cameroon S.A., is
a rail-mounted drilling rig and can skid between the two wells in a
matter of hours.
Well La-108 was spudded on the 12(th) November 2016 and has been
drilled and cased to a depth of 400 metres. Currently, Savannah is
drilling the 17 1/2 " hole section on La-108, after which the rig
will be skidded back to the La-107 well to drill its 17 1/2 " hole
section.
The gas bearing target horizons, from which it is anticipated
both new wells will produce, are in the Upper Cretaceous (Campanian
and Santonian) Logbaba Formation, which is a thick sequence of
interbedded sands and shales found at depths between 1,700m and
3,200m below the surface.
Rig Skidding and Batch Drilling
The 2016/17 drilling campaign at Logbaba is designed as a 'batch
drilling' operation. As a well is drilled, the equipment, drilling
fluids, drilling services and specialist personnel required vary
for each hole section. In a batch drilling operation, the rig is
moved back and forth between the wells, progressing through all the
hole sections until the wells have reached target depth. The Komako
1 rail mounted drilling rig is designed for this type of
operation.
Significant cost saving and efficiencies are realised from a
batch drilling programme, as materials and services are mobilised
to the site, employed on both wells for each hole section and then
demobilised when no longer required. In a conventional back-to-back
two well drilling campaign the equipment and materials are all
mobilised as required for the first well and then all equipment
remains on standby rental until it is required again on the second
well, three or four months later. With batch drilling the Company
avoids having significant amounts of equipment and services on
standby for 3 or 4 months between wells.
This announcement contains inside information.
For further information, please visit www.victoriaoilandgas.com
or contact:
Victoria Oil & Gas Plc
Kevin Foo/Laurence Read Tel: +44 (0) 20 7921 8820
Strand Hanson Limited
Rory Murphy / Stuart Faulkner Tel: +44 (0) 20 7409 3494
Shore Capital Stockbrokers Limited (Joint Broker)
Mark Percy / Toby Gibbs (corporate finance) Tel: +44 (0) 207 408 4090
Jerry Keen (corporate broking)
FirstEnergy Capital LLP (Joint Broker)
Jonathan Wright/David van Erp Tel: +44 (0) 207 448 0200
Bell Pottinger
Daniel Thöle / Charles Stewart / Zara de Belder Tel: +44 (0) 20 3 772 2499
Notes to Editors
About Victoria Oil & Gas Plc
Victoria Oil & Gas (VOG.L) is a gas producing and
distributing company.
The Company's subsidiary, Gaz du Cameroun S.A. ("GDC") owns a
60% participating interest and operates the onshore Logbaba Gas
Project. The Logbaba Gas Project supplies cost effective, clean and
reliable natural gas to industries in the Douala region of
Cameroon. RSM Production Corporation, an affiliate of Grynberg
Petroleum Company of Denver, Colorado holds the remaining 40%
participating interest. In addition, VOG has recently been assigned
a 75% participating interest in the Matanda block, which neighbours
the Logbaba block. The remaining 25% participating interest is held
by AFEX.
VOG also holds 100% of the West Medvezhye oil and gas
exploration project near Nadym, Russia. Given the challenging
economic environment in Russia, the Group has fully impaired the
West Medvezhye assets.
This information is provided by RNS
The company news service from the London Stock Exchange
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