Ann: Alameda-1 Drilling Update, page-315

There are plenty of examples of this worldwide, infact water is often injected to increase recovery. However, my read on todays announcement is not that there is an influx via water saturation in the reservoir rock, rather that they’ve come close to reaching the OWC at the bottom of the formation. AP’s statements (below) in todays report actually points to this, but I’m not sure a lot would’ve understood.

“At total depth there was some evidence of formation water returned with the oil during logging operations, even though no water had been encountered whilst drilling.”