{"id":12050,"date":"2022-03-17T07:41:53","date_gmt":"2022-03-17T07:41:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/?p=12050"},"modified":"2022-03-17T07:41:53","modified_gmt":"2022-03-17T07:41:53","slug":"egypt-sdx-energy-achieves-first-oil-at-msd-25-well-west-gharib-concession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/egypt-sdx-energy-achieves-first-oil-at-msd-25-well-west-gharib-concession\/","title":{"rendered":"EGYPT: SDX Energy Achieves First Oil At Msd-25 Well, West Gharib Concession"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"db\"><span class=\"dc\">SDX Energy has announced the commencement of oil production at the MSD-25 infill development well on the Meseda field in its West Gharib concession, Egypt. MSD-25, which encountered the primary top Asl Formation reservoir at 4,109ft MD (3,361ft TVDSS) and reached 4,385ft TD on 22 February 2022, after drilling through 84.8ft of good-quality, net oil pay sandstone with an average porosity of 26.1%. The well has now been successfully perforated, tied-in to the existing facilities, and flow tested. It is expected that, post-clean up, the well will achieve a stabilised gross production rate of c.300bbl\/d which is in line with pre-drill estimates.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"db\"><span class=\"dc\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"db\"><span class=\"dc\">MSD-25 is the second well in a fully funded, up to 13-well development campaign at the Meseda and Rabul oil fields in the West Gharib concession, Egyptian Eastern Desert. The development drilling campaign is aiming to grow gross production to c.3,500 &#8211; 4,000bbl\/d by early 2023.<\/span><span class=\"dc\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"db\"><span class=\"dc\">The rig is now in the process of moving to the next well in the campaign, MSD-20, with spud expected in the next two to three weeks. In order to take advantage of the high oil price, a second rig will also begin operations to drill the MSD-24 well and accelerate the development plan, with a spud date planned for mid-April. \u00a0SDX and its partner will continue to assess the performance of the rigs over the coming months to determine how long both rigs will remain operational on the concession.<\/span><span class=\"dd\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"de\"><span class=\"cq\">Mark Reid, CEO of SDX, commented:<\/span><span class=\"cq\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"de\"><span class=\"cq\">&#8220;We are pleased to get MSD-25 quickly and successfully connected to our infrastructure. The well is now producing and, when it has fully cleaned-up, we expect it to contribute c.300bbl\/d of gross oil production. Our 13-well development campaign at\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"dg\">West Gharib<\/span><span class=\"cg\">, which we are now accelerating with the contracting of a second rig, provides a low-cost, highly beneficial exposure to the oil price which has generated a netback of\u00a0US$35\/bbl at\u00a0US$68\/bbl Brent in the first nine months of\u00a02021. MSD-25 and the rest of the planned wells are expected to significantly boost the production and cashflow from these fields in the coming months and I look forward to updating the market further as the campaign progresses.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SDX Energy has announced the commencement of oil production at the MSD-25 infill development well on the Meseda field in its West Gharib concession, Egypt. MSD-25, which encountered the primary &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/egypt-sdx-energy-achieves-first-oil-at-msd-25-well-west-gharib-concession\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":10258,"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":[7710,709,7627,10332,10333,9956,7628,7820,9984],"class_list":["post-12050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-countries","category-north-africa","category-top-news","tag-eastern-desert","tag-egypt","tag-meseda","tag-msd-20","tag-msd-24","tag-msd-25","tag-rabul","tag-sdx-energy","tag-west-gharib-concession","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Oil-Pump-Jack.jpg?fit=1024%2C630&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5JWkQ-38m","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11920,"url":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/egypt-sdx-energy-completion-of-drilling-at-msd-25-well-west-gharib-oil-concession\/","url_meta":{"origin":12050,"position":0},"title":"EGYPT: SDX Energy Completion Of Drilling At Msd-25 Well, West Gharib Oil Concession","author":"","date":"February 28, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"SDX Energy has announced the completion of drilling at the MSD-25 infill development well on the Meseda field in its West Gharib concession, Egypt. 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