MPRL E&P starts Tendering Process for Onshore Deep wildcatting below Mann Field
- September 27, 2010
MPRL E&P Pte Ltd ( “MPRL E&P” ), the only independent Exploration & Production company active in both Onshore and Offshore Myanmar, is pleased to announce the start of its tendering process for equipment and services to drilling one firm deep well and one contingent well.
MPRL E&P operates with state company MOGE the Mann Field, onshore central Myanmar, under a Performance Compensation Contract ( more under the website of MPRL E&P at www.mprlexp.com ). MPRL E&P is now exploring the deep HC prospectivity below the Mann Field, a narrow N-S anticline plunging to the North, as well as the HC potential in adjacent compartments.
MPRL E&P intends to drill one firm well to PTD 16,200 ft along hole with a dual objective. The shallow objective consists of the same Oligo-Miocene reservoirs as producing in the Mann field to be drilled in an adjacent compartment to the East. The deep objective consists of the Lower Oligocene Shwezetaw sandstones below the Mann Field, and which are known to be HC bearing in several fields to the North of Mann Field. Should the deep objective be dry at the anticipated location, sidetracking to assess the HC prospectivity in another fault compartment is also under study.
The contingent well will depend on the presence of HC in the shallow and/or deep objectives.
Some twelve wells have been drilled in the past in order to reach the Mann Deep objectives. Most wells have been drilled in near crestal position. The main reason for their failure to reach these deep objectives is attributed to high overpressures, exceeding 20 ppg in some cases. The seismic image and available well information suggest that those overpressures are highest in the core of the Mann fold. As the main drilling challenge of the Mann Deep prospect is to overcome these overpressures, MPRL E&P has determined to reach the Mann Deep objectives from the flank by deviated wells hoping to avoid the harshest of these overpressures.
Drilling operations on the first well are anticipated to commence in March-April 2011 and to last for about four months to reach TD. MPRL E&P will regularly update the status of these operations as significant milestones and results are achieved.
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