San Leon Moves Closer to Shale Gas Extraction in Poland

San Leon Energy moves on with its hydraulic fracture stimulation programme in Poland, announcing two more fracs on Lewino-1G2. The initial verical frac in the Gdansk W Concession was performed also to gather necessary data for future horizontal drilling and multi-staged hydraulic fracture stimulation. 

"We are pleased with our optimisation plans for the next stage of the frac stimulation operations on Lewino-1G2. These have been based on the valuable data acquired from the first frac, and have had input from all parties involved," Executive Chairman Oisin Fanning commented.

The snubbing unit will be mobilised in the coming days and the company expects flowback, clean-up and testing to begin at the end November or early December. 

'The design work is expected to optimise these operations by changing several parameters relative to the initial frac, including the use of ceramic propant, which has significantly higher strength than sand, reducing propant crushing, and therefore expected to yield better frac conductivity and communication to the wellbore. Although this is believed to be the first time that ceramic propant has been used in Poland, it is very widely used in the US,' reads the note released on Wednesday.