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Kea plans more wells following Wingrove success
4 August 2010 - Kea Petroleum may drill more wells at its recent Wingrove onshore Taranaki oil discovery depending on the success of a testing programme at Wingrove-2 using specialised fracturing techniques and downhole heating.
Sources: Kea Petroleum and Lindsay Clark
In April, the start-up petroleum explorer drilled its first well in PEP 51153. They discovered oil-bearing sandstones and a deeper zone with “very high levels” of hydrocarbon gasses indicating oil.
In a recent website presentation Kea says that the Wingrove-2 net pay sands have a calculated total productivity potential of 400 bopd. The risked expected rate (using Stimfrac and heated tubing) is 150-200 bopd which should yield about 200-250 mbo.
On this basis, Wingrove-1 will be re-entered and placed on production. Add this to two further production wells which will be drilled from the Wingrove site, they expect a total yield of around 1 million barrels of oil. A further exploration well will also be drilled from the nearby Oru site.
The specialist equipment required for the production testing of Wingrove-2 should arrive from overseas during the last quarter of 2010. Planning should then start for further Mt Messenger step-out appraisal wells and an active exploration program from early 2011.
