{"id":11019,"date":"2021-10-19T09:05:26","date_gmt":"2021-10-19T09:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/?p=11019"},"modified":"2021-10-19T09:05:26","modified_gmt":"2021-10-19T09:05:26","slug":"egypt-kuwait-energy-commences-production-at-asx-1x-discovery-in-the-abu-sennan-licence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/egypt-kuwait-energy-commences-production-at-asx-1x-discovery-in-the-abu-sennan-licence\/","title":{"rendered":"EGYPT: Kuwait Energy Commences Production at ASX-1X Discovery in the Abu Sennan licence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dy\"><strong><span class=\"df\">Highlights<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"dz\"><span class=\"ea\">\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"eb\">Commercial discovery declared at the ASX-1X exploration well<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"dz\"><span class=\"ea\">\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"eb\">Approval granted from the Minister of Petroleum of the award of a development lease covering this new discovery on\u00a012 October 2021<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"dz\"><span class=\"ea\">\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"eb\">Partner confidence and experience in Abu Roash C reservoirs led to the well being brought straight onto production three weeks after initial drilling results<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"dz\"><span class=\"ea\">\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"eb\">Initial production flow rates from the AR-C of 870 bopd gross (191 bopd net) on a 64\/64&#8243; choke<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"dz\"><span class=\"dd\">\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"eb\">ASX-1X is the second exploration success to be brought on stream on the Abu Sennan licence in 2021<\/span><span class=\"da\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ec\"><strong><span class=\"da\">ASX-1X Well<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"ed\"><span class=\"dx\">The ASX-1X well is located 7km to the north of the producing Al Jahraa Field. \u00a0It safely reached a Total Depth of 4,272m, several days ahead of schedule and under-budget<\/span><span class=\"ee\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"dw\"><span class=\"dx\">Preliminary results suggest the well encountered a combined net pay total of at least 10m across a number of reservoir intervals, including the primary reservoir targets of the AR-C. Based on further interpretation of the well data, there was sufficient confidence for the operator, Kuwait Energy Egypt, to submit notice of a commercial discovery at ASX-1X and an application for a 11.92km<sup>2<\/sup>\u00a0development lease to EGPC. On\u00a012 October 2021, the Minister of Petroleum approved the award of this ninth development lease within the Abu Sennan licence. Production has now commenced from the AR-C reservoir with initial gross rates of 870 bopd (191 bopd net), achieved on a 64\/64&#8243; choke. This is an exceptionally quick turnaround of just three weeks from announcing the initial exploration well results to securing a development lease and bringing this new discovery onto production and generating revenue.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ef\"><strong><span class=\"dj\">Al Jahraa-13 Development Well<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"eg\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"a\"><span class=\"eg\">The Al Jahraa-13 development well will target the Upper and Lower Bahariya reservoirs in the Al Jahraa Field and follows up on the success that was achieved with the Al Jahraa-8st1 well.\u00a0 The ECDC-6 rig is shortly expected to mobilise from its current location in the Eastern Desert, with the well-spud expected within the coming weeks.<\/span><span class=\"ei\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ed\"><span class=\"da\">United Chief Executive Officer,\u00a0Brian Larkin\u00a0commented<\/span><span class=\"cs\">:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ed\"><span class=\"dx\">&#8220;The Commercial discovery at ASX-1X well and the fast track to production will enhance revenue and further increase the proven reserves on the licence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ej\"><span class=\"dx\">Another new discovery is a further positive sign for the remaining exploration potential within licence, and we will continue to work with our Joint Venture partners to prioritise these opportunities which can be brought into production in short time frames.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ek\"><span class=\"ds\">We are looking forward to the spudding of the Al Jahraa 13 development well in the coming weeks. \u00a0This will be the fifth well in our 2021 drilling programme.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"ei\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"eh\"><span class=\"ei\">With the excellent record of exploration and development drilling success we have had on Abu Sennan to date, we are very excited about the four well drilling campaign next year and beyond, and the potential that the licence offers for years to come.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Highlights \u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Commercial discovery declared at the ASX-1X exploration well \u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Approval granted from the Minister of Petroleum of the award of a development lease covering this new discovery on\u00a012 October 2021 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/egypt-kuwait-energy-commences-production-at-asx-1x-discovery-in-the-abu-sennan-licence\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":8247,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7442,7446,11],"tags":[8712,8713,9691,9487,9692,709,8815],"class_list":["post-11019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-countries","category-north-africa","category-top-news","tag-abu-sennan-licence","tag-al-jahraa-field","tag-al-jahraa-13-development-well","tag-asx-1x-exploration-well","tag-ecdc-6-rig","tag-egypt","tag-kuwait-energy","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Egypt-Abu-Sennan.jpg?fit=750%2C406&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5JWkQ-2RJ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10745,"url":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/egypt-kuwait-energy-egypt-spuds-asx-1x-exploration-well\/","url_meta":{"origin":11019,"position":0},"title":"EGYPT: Kuwait Energy Egypt Spuds ASX-1X exploration well","author":"","date":"August 16, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"United Oil & Gas has announced the spudding of the ASX-1X exploration well in the Abu Sennan Licence\u00a0 Egypt on 14 August. United holds a 22% working interest in the Licence, which is operated by Kuwait Energy Egypt.\u00a0 Highlights: \u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Drilling of the ASX-1X exploration well commenced on\u00a014 August 2021 \u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Countries&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Countries","link":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/category\/countries\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Egypt-Abu-Sennan.jpg?fit=750%2C406&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Egypt-Abu-Sennan.jpg?fit=750%2C406&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Egypt-Abu-Sennan.jpg?fit=750%2C406&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Egypt-Abu-Sennan.jpg?fit=750%2C406&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":10663,"url":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/egypt-united-oil-and-gas-announces-successful-testing-of-al-jahraa-8-development-well\/","url_meta":{"origin":11019,"position":1},"title":"EGYPT: United Oil and Gas Announces Successful Testing of Al Jahraa-8 Development Well","author":"","date":"August 2, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"United Oil & Gas has provided the following update on the testing of the Al Jahraa-8 (\"AJ-8\") development well in the Abu Sennan concession, onshore Egypt (the \"Licence\"). United holds a 22% working interest in the Licence, which is operated by Kuwait Energy Egypt.\u00a0 Highlights from AJ-8 Well-testing: \u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Preliminary short-term\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Countries&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Countries","link":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/category\/countries\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Egypt-Abu-Sennan.jpg?fit=750%2C406&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Egypt-Abu-Sennan.jpg?fit=750%2C406&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Egypt-Abu-Sennan.jpg?fit=750%2C406&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Egypt-Abu-Sennan.jpg?fit=750%2C406&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":10897,"url":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/egyptian-united-oil-gas-provides-asx-1x-well-2022-drilling-programme-update\/","url_meta":{"origin":11019,"position":2},"title":"EGYPTIAN: United Oil &#038; Gas Provides ASX-1X Well &#038; 2022 Drilling Programme Update","author":"","date":"September 23, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Highlights -\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0ASX-1X exploration well encountered at least 10m net pay in a number of oil-bearing reservoirs -\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Completion of the well and\u00a0well-testing is now planned, and if successful, will be followed by an application to\u00a0the Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation\u00a0(\"EGPC\") for a development lease.\u00a0 The ASX-1X well is located 7km to the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Countries&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Countries","link":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/category\/countries\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Egypt-Abu-Sennan.jpg?fit=750%2C406&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Egypt-Abu-Sennan.jpg?fit=750%2C406&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Egypt-Abu-Sennan.jpg?fit=750%2C406&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Egypt-Abu-Sennan.jpg?fit=750%2C406&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":10601,"url":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/united-oil-gas-completes-drilling-of-the-al-jahraa-8-development-well\/","url_meta":{"origin":11019,"position":3},"title":"United Oil &#038; Gas Completes Drilling of the Al Jahraa-8 Development Well","author":"","date":"July 20, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Highlights from AJ-8 Well: Initial interpretations indicate a total of over 40m MD of net oil pay encountered cumulatively across three different reservoir units in a sidetrack (AJ-8ST1), after the initial hole was plugged back due to stability issues Preliminary results indicate over 30m of net pay in the Upper\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Countries&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Countries","link":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/category\/countries\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Egypt-Abu-Sennan.jpg?fit=750%2C406&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Egypt-Abu-Sennan.jpg?fit=750%2C406&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Egypt-Abu-Sennan.jpg?fit=750%2C406&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Egypt-Abu-Sennan.jpg?fit=750%2C406&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":10284,"url":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/united-oil-and-gas-asd-1x-well-test-update-submission-of-notice-of-commercial-discovery\/","url_meta":{"origin":11019,"position":4},"title":"United Oil and Gas ASD-1X Well Test Update &#038; Submission of Notice of Commercial Discovery","author":"","date":"May 5, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"United Oil & Gas has provide the following update on the testing of the ASD-1X exploration well in the Abu Sennan concession, onshore Egypt and the spudding of the AJ-8 development well. 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