unformatted huntley report, page-5

re: unformatted huntley report - tiof Hi abuman,

Talking about Angola. Here's a few deep water Angolan flow rates for those who have concerns with Tiof.

"The Ceres well tested at a maximum rate of 5844 barrels of oil per day, BP said. Work is ongoing to discover the size of the discovery."

"The BP-operated Palas-1 discovery was drilled by the semi-submersible Leiv Eiriksson in 1600 metres of water to a total depth of 3745 metres. The well tested at a maximum rate of 5330 barrels of oil per day, through a 5/8-inch choke."

"The discovery well, Clochas-1, encountered an oil-bearing reservoir that flowed at a test rate of 1764 barrels per day. It was drilled in 1295 metres of water to a total depth of 3140 metres."

"The Plutao discovery, revealed earlier this year by Upstream, was made in more than 2000 metres water depth in block 31. "The well was tested at a maximum rate of 5357 barrels a day of oil," BP said."

"The Semba-1 wildcat, the first well drilled in block 24, encountered two oil-bearing reservoirs that flowed at a combined test rate of 3039 barrels per day."

With all this Tiof rubbish going on, perhaps a revisit to Potter's March open briefing may prove comforting.

First the original flow announcement.

The maximum rate the well has been flowed at was approximately 12,400 barrels of oil plus 11.0 million standard cubic feet of gas per day constrained by a 104/64 inch choke. The well test is currently in the main flow period and the well is flowing at a stable rate of approximately 9,150 barrels of oil per day in the main flow period constrained by a 72/64 inch choke. Note: The gas production is of gas dissolved in the crude oil - no free gas was observed in this well.

Now for the comments.

"The flow rates we have achieved at Tiof-6 exceed our pre-test expectations."

"We would usually expect the flow rate to increase considerably under more normal production conditions when we will have much larger storage facilities and can draw the well down harder. In Chinguetti for example we’re anticipating that we could roughly double the production rates compared with the test rates."

"We actually expected a much lower flow rate because the reservoirs in this area are more complex and less permeable than those at Chinguetti. The flow rate indicated that we’ve got a better reservoir at Tiof than we first thought and that’s what underpins the higher flow rates."

Enjoy your bowl of spaghetti Mr Voelte! :)

Cheers,
xmagx