{"id":12936,"date":"2022-12-09T08:06:38","date_gmt":"2022-12-09T08:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/?p=12936"},"modified":"2022-12-09T08:06:38","modified_gmt":"2022-12-09T08:06:38","slug":"gabon-vaalco-energy-provides-operational-update-on-the-north-tchibala-2h-st-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/gabon-vaalco-energy-provides-operational-update-on-the-north-tchibala-2h-st-well\/","title":{"rendered":"GABON: VAALCO Energy Provides Operational Update on the North Tchibala 2H-ST well"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Highlights<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In Gabon, the North Tchibala 2H-ST well was brought online in early November and flowed at a low, controlled rate to allow for cleanup and to minimize negative impact to the completion;<\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<li>Through early December, the well has flowed, but with temporary interruptions for operational activity and shut-ins for pressure build up analysis with the following results:<\/li>\n<li>\n<ul>\n<li>Produced approximately 8,000 gross barrels of oil, or about 275 gross barrels of oil per day (\u201cBOPD\u201d);<\/li>\n<li>Recovered about 33% of injected completion fluid;<\/li>\n<li>Cleanup is continuing and pressure transient analysis indicates the lower stimulated zones may not be contributing;<\/li>\n<li>Conducting chemical analysis on oil recovered from the well that will help determine if all zones that were fracture stimulated are producing;<\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Post-frac modeling suggests that the well is capable of producing rates at or above 1,500 gross BOPD;<\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<li>On December 4th, the first lifting from the new FSO <em>TELI <\/em>was successfully completed at the same time that the final remaining volumes from the Nautipa FPSO were removed;<\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<li>Meanwhile in Egypt, VAALCO expects to spud the first horizontal well on December 12th, with completion operations planned for first quarter 2023;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>George Maxwell, Chief Executive Officer, commented:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8216;We continue to monitor the fluids flowing from the North Tchibala 2H-ST well to better understand its results. During cleanup, the well has been producing about 275 gross BOPD, however our post-frac modeling indicates that the well is capable of producing rates in excess of 1,500 gross BOPD. The well is not cleaning up as expected, with only about 33% of completion fluid recovered. We are continuing to gather information to understand why the lower stimulated zones may not yet be contributing any meaningful production. We will continue to monitor the well and plan to provide additional information to the market once we have analyzed all the data.<\/em><em>&#8216;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Highlights In Gabon, the North Tchibala 2H-ST well was brought online in early November and flowed at a low, controlled rate to allow for cleanup and to minimize negative impact &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/gabon-vaalco-energy-provides-operational-update-on-the-north-tchibala-2h-st-well\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":12190,"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":[7442,11,7444],"tags":[709,944,10879,10880,8532],"class_list":["post-12936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-countries","category-top-news","category-west-africa","tag-egypt","tag-gabon","tag-nautipa-fpso","tag-north-tchibala-2h-st-well","tag-vaalco","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/GABON-ETAME.jpg?fit=376%2C485&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5JWkQ-3mE","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12535,"url":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/gabon-vaalco-energy-provides-operational-update\/","url_meta":{"origin":12936,"position":0},"title":"GABON: VAALCO Energy Provides Operational Update","author":"","date":"August 3, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Highlights South Tchibala 1HB-ST well: Penetrated a thin section of the Gamba sand that is not economically viable to complete in this wellbore; Discovered two potential Dentale producing zones, the Dentale D1 sand and the Dentale D9 sand; Completed the Deep Dentale D1 sand interval with a small frac pack;\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Central Africa&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Central Africa","link":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/category\/countries\/central-africa\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/GABON-ETAME.jpg?fit=376%2C485&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":13276,"url":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/gabon-egypt-vaalco-energy-provides-operational-update\/","url_meta":{"origin":12936,"position":1},"title":"GABON\/EGYPT: VAALCO Energy Provides Operational Update","author":"","date":"February 14, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Reported fourth quarter 2022 production of approximately 18,175 working interest (\u201cWI\u201d) barrels of oil equivalent (\u201cBOEPD\u201d) or about 14,200 net revenue interest (\u201cNRI\u201d) BOEPD; Production was within VAALCO\u2019s fourth quarter 2022 guidance range and was positively impacted by strong Egypt production but offset by delayed Gabon well timing and related\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Central Africa&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Central Africa","link":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/category\/countries\/central-africa\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Gabon-Hubiscus.jpg?fit=496%2C416&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":12317,"url":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/gabon-vaalco-energy-announces-successful-drilling-of-south-tchibala-1hb-st-well\/","url_meta":{"origin":12936,"position":2},"title":"GABON: VAALCO Energy Announces Successful Drilling of South Tchibala 1HB-ST Well","author":"","date":"June 6, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"VAALCO Energy has completed the\u00a0successful drilling of the South Tchibala 1HB-ST well that was drilled from the Avouma platform in the Etame field, offshore Gabon. 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