Voitinel Partners Spuds Second Well in Romanian Gas Discovery

Europa Oil and Gas has announced the commencement of first drilling into a second well in the Brodina Licence in Romania.

Europa's partner and well operator Aurelian Oil & Gas spudded of the Horodnic-1 well on the Brodina licence.

The well will seek to test the Late Badenian sandstone found in the discovery well.  It will also test for the minimum levels of gas needed to evaluate and continue development on the Voitinel  gas discovery.

The drilling follows-up the Voitinel-1 discovery well, which flowed 3 million cubic feet per day in 2009.  If successful, Horodnic-1, which is the second well on the Voitinel discovery, will be followed by a further drilling to test the potential of the Voitinel-Solca trend on the licence.

Europa Managing Director, Paul Barrett, said that the spudding was an important step. `The drilling of this well is an important step in the evaluation of the Voitinel Gas Discovery. A good gas test in this well will add much value to the project and underline the resource potential in the structure, giving the partnership the confidence to push forward on appraising the upside in 2012.'

Aurelian Oil & Gas holds 33.75% interest and is the Brodina Licence's operator with Europa holding a 28.75% interest.