13th Feb 2017 07:00
For Immediate Release, Embargoed until 7 am
13 February 2017
LGO ENERGY PLC
("LGO" or the "Company")
Operational Update, Trinidad
LGO today confirms that final approval was granted by the Forestry Department on Friday, 10 February 2017, to cut trees in order to clear the well sites for the impending two shallow infill wells at the Goudron Field ("Field") in eastern Trinidad. Site clearance work will now start at H18E N4 and final preparations will be made to mobilise Rig#18 to the Field. Drilling operations will commence as soon as the site has been cleared and levelled, and the rig is in the Field.
Well H18E N4, which is expected to be designated GY-682, is targeting a net 200-foot thick Mayaro Sandstone pay interval at a depth between 300 and 1,000 feet depth and the well is anticipated to be completed for production immediately after drilling operations are concluded. Rig#18 will then be moved to the second planned location, H18E G11(5).
Neil Ritson, LGO's Executive Chairman, commented:
"A delay beyond our immediate control caused some minor slippage in the timing of the planned drilling programme, however, we are very pleased that work is now underway. These wells are the first two on a renewed campaign of production well drilling and we are pleased to be able to return to normal operations and to the multi-year development plan we have had in place at Goudron since its acquisition in 2012."
Qualified Person's Statement:
The information contained in this announcement has been reviewed and approved by Neil Ritson, Chief Executive Officer and Director for LGO Energy plc, who has over 38 years of relevant experience in the oil industry. Mr. Ritson is a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE), an Active Member of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) and is a Fellow of the Geological Society of London (BGS).
Enquiries:
LGO Energy plc | +44 (0) 203 794 9230 |
Neil Ritson | |
Fergus Jenkins | |
Beaumont Cornish Limited | +44 (0) 20 7628 3396 |
Nomad | |
Roland Cornish | |
Rosalind Hill Abrahams | |
FirstEnergy Capital LLP | +44 (0) 20 7448 0200 |
Joint Broker | |
Jonathan Wright | |
David van Erp | |
Bell Pottinger | +44 (0) 20 3772 2500 |
Financial PR | |
Henry Lerwill |
Glossary:
pay and net pay | a reservoir or portion of a reservoir formation that contains economically producible hydrocarbons. The overall interval in which pay sections occur is the gross pay; the portion of the gross pay that meets specific criteria such as minimum porosity, permeability and hydrocarbon saturation are termed net pay |
Mayaro Sandstone | alternative name for the Goudron Sandstones occurring at stratigraphic intervals above the pre-Mayaro unconformity |
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