IOG成功鉆成Skipper評價井

The company said on Friday that the well was successfully drilled to a total vertical depth of 5,578ft with no safety incidents and achieved its primary objective of retrieving good quality reservoir condition oil samples from the Skipper reservoir in order to optimize the Skipper field development plan. The oil viscosity of the samples appears likely to be within the 50cP – 150cP range expected by the IOG management, much better than Competent Persons Report (CPR) estimates. The samples are now being analyzed in Aberdeen, with initial results expected in September 2016. Should these properties be confirmed, the development of the Skipper field will require fewer development wells thereby improving the development economics. IOG said that the well’s secondary objective, drilling of two mapped reservoir structures beneath the Skipper oil field in the Lower Dornoch and Maureen formations, is now complete. The well did not encounter hydrocarbons there so they will now be plugged and abandoned.

Mark Routh, CEO of IOG, said: “We are extremely pleased to have achieved drilling success at the Skipper well. We are encouraged by the good quality oil samples retrieved. Whilst the exploration prospects did not encounter hydrocarbons, We are increasingly confident that the commerciality of the Skipper field has been confirmed now that we have the data we need to progress to the field development planning.