Petrogas Starts Up Dutch Offshore Well
UK independent RockRose Energy said December 4 that a new well on the Netherlands offshore A18 field has been drilled on time and on budget, and is now producing.
The Petrogas-operated A18-A5 well targeted Pleistocene-aged stacked marine sands, specifically the Q3.2 and Q4 sand units. Production to date at the A18 Field has been from the older sand units. RockRose executive chairman Andrew Austin said: "The result from the A18-A5 well came in above pre-drill expectations."
The A18-A5 well tested at 12mn ft3/d (0.32mn m3/d) from the Q4 unit, with the Q3.2 testing above expectations at 18mn ft3/d.
A18-A5 is constrained at 20mn ft3/d due to infrastructure limits of 75mn ft3/d gross, and therefore the asset will be producing at a platform plateau for considerably longer than anticipated. These constraints give a net rate of 200-250 barrels of oil equivalent per day to RockRose, it said, underpinning production from its Netherlands assets for the next couple of years.
A18-A5 and the ongoing workovers on A12, will bring the AB area back to a facilities-constrained plateau of 135mn ft3/d gross (3,400 boe/d net to RockRose), said the UK firm.
Petrogas E&P is based in Oman and had net 2017 production of 43,219 boe/d across the Middle East, Europe and Africa (88,339 boe/d gross).