Ann: Block 9 Alameda 2 Appraisal Update, page-275

The issue is that this first well campaign was meant to conduct a flow test and they still don't have any real flow rates at the moment. When are they going to get a "real" flow rate doesn't look like it in this well so the hope lies in the next well.

AP's guess at flow rates from deduction is not proof that it will flow at a sustained rate over long periods of time.

LR 5.30 (j) Oil did not flow to surface so no accurate flow rate can be quoted. Based
on a displacement of a 64-barrel water cushion in a two-hour period before
the well killed itself, an approximate flow rate of 750 bopd can be deduced.
Choke sizes varied during the test. Initial choke size was 12/64”,
increasing to 32/64” then 72/64”

If they knew such a situation existed above they would have never conducted the flow test this way and would have planned on using pumps so I suspect MAY themselves are surpised also that the oil hasn't flowed to surface.