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It's a company that collects well data and records all over the world. Anything filed any where they will have. I had an account with them years ago and could pull up anything on any well. Cost the chit out of me but well worth it.
J, do you know anyone that has an IHS acct?
They will have anything filed on our well. That's how Mromro knew about the CEPSA deal, long before PN told shareholders.
If they made a well, what could they do besides set a liner and cap it, at this time? No pipelines and too far to truck it, imo.
Things like that happen..
In the early 80's I drilled a Hunton lime well for Sun Oil Co. I ran a core barrel and when we laid it out in the trays, oil ran out of them. Best looking Hunton logs I ever seen. They plugged it, got rid of their investors by top leasing it and the next spring I drove by and it was pumping. lol.
Sun has been barred from drilling in Okla for many years.
The BOP stack stays in place and DP is run in and spotted at the bottom of the lower plug. When pumping cement, you displace drilling mud and it has to go to the pits. Pull and lay down pipe until you get to where the next plug goes and so on. Now when they get to top plug they can close BOP pipe rams, hook hose to kill/fill up valve below stack and pump top plug until cement shows up in pit. Just be sure not to get any in stack.
Like I said, there is so many ways of doing this that the stack still sitting there tells us nothing for sure unless it is on the intermediate string. Also, they could have pulled the intermediate and nipple back up on the surface, for plugging.
Wish I could say they hit but don't want a long nose.. :)
No chance. If they made a well, all that would be in the casing is fresh water used to displace the cement behind the casing.
Any pressure will show up when perforated and they have their own well control equipment.
It does take several days for the cement to cure.
We never completed a well with the drilling rig. It takes another drum and the blocks are strung up on so many lines, it's too slow and cost too much. They may over there, I don't know.
Seek, there are many different ways of doing things when drilling a hole of this size.
After rigging up we always nippled up on the 30" conductor with a riser pipe, annular BOP like is on top of that stack and flow pipe, all to get the cuttings & mud high enough to go into the shale shaker and pits. Run in a 26 1/2" bit and drill surface. Take all that off and run 20" surface pipe. Cement it from bottom to top and set slips in surface head. Screw a flange on surface pipe and install all BOP's. Drill intermediate, do all this again and go in with slim hole collars and everything.
So if they nippled up on the intermediate to drill the pay zones and the stack is still there, I don't think the well is plugged. Why leave a million or so bucks worth of intermediate pipe when most can be pulled back out??
Like I say there are many ways of doing this and mine may be old school today. :)
John
Not yet..
Intermediate most likely still in well, with BOP stack still standing..
The well is plugged with the rig using drill pipe to pump the plugs through. Everywhere around here a cement plug is spotted in between every pay zone and one just above all, 100 ft below bottom of surface up to 100 ft inside (100 in & 100 out) and then a plug in top of surface.
If they didn't pump a top plug with the DP, they'll have a hard time doing so now. We always laid down DP after spotting each plug and left 2-3 stands in the derrick for the top plug. We'd run it in and chain it down to keep from pumping the DP out of the hole.
Seek, I find it interesting that the BOP stack is still on the hole. We always pulled it before pumping the top plug on a dry hole to keep from getting cement in the rams.
Another thought and maybe wishful thinking is if I had set a liner and had an open cased hole, I sure wouldn't want a derrick or sub pin or hammer dropped in it and one way to protect it is to close the blind rams and leave it while rigging down.
In turn, if it was a dry hole they may have set a plug at the bottom of the surface, left out the top plug so as to make a fresh water well out of it. Steel casing not real good IMO.
Oldoil, nobody can give you an educated guess without any info what so ever on the well. I know that's not what you want but I'm as lost as you, on this one.
I thought by them drilling such a big hole as a test well that they felt it was a sure thing. They could have set 8 5/8 surface and drilled a 7 7/8 hole to TD and been through in a few days. But, they didn't and that alone keeps my hopes up.
If CEPSA plugged Tarach-1, I'd like to know if they shot off and pulled intermediate casing back out of the hole. If they did, they are done with it. If not they can still go back in.
Ever hear of a retrievable plug? Used on completions often.
When they TD the well and run electric logs they know if they made a producer. Now, if they made a well, out in the middle of nowhere, they would most likely take the logs and what they found and correlate that with the 2D to see if they had enough reserves to move forward. That should not take long IMO but everything seems to move a lot slower over there..
Wonder if CEPSA is running a long flow test on Tarach # 1 or trying to tie up 11B before news leaks?
Grasping for straws I guess because this makes no sense..
J, unless they had some bad problems drilling that well, I'd bet the rig is long gone.. JMO
I've also been on rigs where the first DST of an upper sand was a miss run (packer didn't hold) or it had little or nothing in it. The rumors would fly on the rig about it being a dry hole even though there were many more sands to drill and test.
Not saying that's the case here but many ways for bad rumors to get started..
Know anyone that has an IHS acct. That's how we found out about the deal with CEPSA. Might be a plugging or completion report filed before PN says anything.
OilNews Kenya has learnt that the search for oil and gas at Tarach-1 in Kenya’s Block 11A has not been successful and works are ongoing to plug the well according to a reliable source.
The drilling that commenced on 14th April 2016 using the SMP 106 rig in the north western block in Kenya targeted to drill from a 20-inch surface casing through intermediate casings down to 2,442 meters and set a seven-inch liner down to a total depth (TD) of 3,000 meters.
The Tarach-1 prospect’s mean estimate of oil prospective unrisked resources was 66 million barrels.
OilNews Kenya cannot however verify whether any hydrocarbons were encountered during the drilling.
Following this new revelation it is unclear whether a planned second exploratory well , the Egole-1 a four-way rollover closure onto a Northwest – Southeast trending fault plain with mean prospective resources of 101 million barrels of oil will continue.
Egole-1 had earlier been planned to follow shortly thereafter although as Oilnews Kenya previously learnt a success at Tarach-1 would lead to a second well.
The news if true casts a dark shadow on upstream activity in Kenya with no further wells expected till late 2016 when Tullow Oil and Africa Oil will resume activity in Blocks 10BB and 13T.
Oldoil, I just woke up. Jcanada is correct, without being on location or knowing the area there is no way of knowing what they may have encountered in this well.
I thought the man you talked to might have a good idea on time but maybe not..
LOL, no that's the reserve pit.
A lot of pipe in the derrick means a deep bit trip, logging or running casing.
Thanks King
If you look real close, there's a lot of drill pipe in that derrick.. :)
Dang, that's a lot of loads to move 106..
No, hadn't been ck'ing their website.
ERHC seems to always be a week late letting us know..
edit; most likely come out in some oil news before we know. Remember the CEPSA deal?
SMP shows rig 106 available, so they may be done..
http://www.smp-drilling.com/rigs.html
In Okla. we have them from 300 ft in the NE to 30,000 ft in the west. Nuttin flat.
OK, thanks.
I see you got your answer before I got home.. Sounds like we have a driller onboard..
Everyone should know what P&A, DST and WOO means.. :)
Me 2.. Don't take that long to P&A one..
They had drilled surface cause they have collars and drill pipe in the derrick.
Thanks,
those clouds don't look good with all the bare ground around 106..
Tomorrow will be six weeks on that hole..
Edit; No, yesterday was six weeks. lol.
Tri-cone bits have three cones that turn on sealed bergs. Have tungsten implanted cutters of different number and length for the hardness being cut and three mud jets that keeps the cones clean. Normal RPM is 60-100 depending on where they cut best.
https://www.google.com/?gfe_rd=ssl&ei=cFdIV9y9M9XR-AWT0pWoCA#q=tricone+bits
PDC bits are solid with tungsten teeth and can be turned about as fast as you want. Normal drilling is a lot faster but lime will tear them up.
https://www.google.com/?gfe_rd=ssl&ei=cFdIV9y9M9XR-AWT0pWoCA#q=pdc+drill+bits
If bad roads are holding up drilling the only thing I could think of is they are could be hauling in heavy loads of drilling water or intermediate casing. If no water was found in that area, ya gotta haul it..
By it taking this long to drill that big hole, they must be using tri-cone button bits, like we did in the 70's & 80's, instead of the new PDC bits. Just a thought.
If SMP doesn't have another well for 106, they may milk this one for a while. :)
Ever wonder why CEPSA dropped one block and came to ours to drill?? I have a pretty good idea that they had a lot more info before 2-D was ran. JMO but when I started looking at an area the first thing I did was run satellite imaging. It would show hot spots in a big area from gas seeping out. Then I would have a man from Arkansas run radio metrics on that area. I also have a little yellow box that will chart sound waves from earths core and bounce off any hydrocarbons and tell appx depth.
A lot of good tools out there to increase the odds on a wildcat!!
If you'll look at my profile picture you will see a small part of a pretty nice boat sitting on a lift behind the crappie in my covered private dock. So what do you really know about what ERHE shareholders can afford??
Yup!! :)
I ask how much surface pipe they were setting and what size intermediate to get a better handle on drilling time but no reply.
When they set that 900 ft of liner they will know appx what they have. Otherwise they will set a cement plug or maybe even fill that 900 ft with cement, shoot off the intermediate just above the cement, pull that pipe back out and set plugs above.
Shooting the pipe off is done with a primer cord charge on a wire line with a collar locator. Let's hope they don't have to do any of this..