27th Apr 2016 07:00
For Immediate Release
27 April 2016
LGO ENERGY PLC
("LGO" or the "Company")
Successful Recompletion of Well GY-671, Goudron Field, Trinidad
LGO is pleased to announce that production has started from a new interval in well GY-671 on the Goudron Field in Trinidad. A total of 208 feet of perforations were added to the Upper C-sand reservoir after setting a packer to isolate this zone. This particular sandstone interval has previously not been completed in any of the surrounding wells.
After initial clean up at rates up to 240 barrels oil per day ("bopd"), the well has now been choked back and is producing a natural stabilized flow rate of 80 bopd through a 6/32-inch choke with a well head flowing pressure of 260 psi. The measured oil gravity is approximately 39 degree API.
The well was completed using tubing conveyed perforating guns and will now remain on production complementing the base level of production on the field which has averaged 403 bopd, month to date prior to GY-671 being recompleted, and after a prolonged period of limited operations at the field. Group production figures for the first quarter are expected to be published in early May.
Neil Ritson, LGO's Chief Executive, commented:
"We are delighted to have located a number of low cost recompletions at a time when the Company remains capital constrained, but when oil prices have stabilized and we can take advantage of reduced overriding royalty rates granted recently.
Well GY-671 is the first of at least six candidate wells to be targeted to boost production and we are hopeful we will be able to report further significant improvements as a result of these operations. The next well is GY-50 which is expected to be completed next week over a 164-foot interval of previously unexploited net oil pay in the Goudron Sandstones."
Overall Financial Position
The Company is continuing to work on financing solutions to resolve its current banking and creditor issues, as previously announced, and is intending to make a further update announcement shortly.
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.
Enquiries:
LGO Energy plc | +44 (0) 203 794 9230 |
Neil Ritson Steve Horton | |
Beaumont Cornish Limited | +44(0) 20 7628 3396 |
Nomad | |
Rosalind Hill Abrahams Roland Cornish | |
FirstEnergy Capital LLP | +44(0) 20 7448 0200 |
Joint Broker Jonathan Wright David van Erp
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Bell Pottinger | +44 (0) 20 3772 2500 |
Financial PR Henry Lerwill |
Glossary:
API | American Petroleum Institute |
C-sand | sandstone reservoirs below the pre-Mayaro unconformity and above the pre-Lower Cruse unconformity encompassing sandstones of equivalent age to both the Gros Morne and the Lower Cruse formations |
Goudron Sandstone | sandstone reservoirs above the pre-Mayaro unconformity |
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 |
psi | pounds per square inch |
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