Petro Matad (PRTDF)

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from Malcy's Blog


Petro Matad has announced that the Velociraptor-1 exploration well in the Taats Basin of Block V located in central Mongolia spudded on 13 June. The well is the first on the Raptor Trend of prospects located 7km south of the Snow Leopard-1 well drilled in 2018 that proved a working petroleum system in the Taats Basin. Velociraptor-1 is targeting an inversion anticline prospect estimated to have 200 million barrels (MMbo) of Mean Prospective Recoverable Resource potential and is planned to drill to a total depth (“TD”) of circa 1,500 metres. The well is expected to take circa 30 days to reach TD and encouraging results in the Velociraptor prospect would significantly de-risk two adjacent prospects on the Raptor Trend which together have Mean Prospective Recoverable Resource potential of an additional 375 MMbo.

Block XX Exploitation Licence

On Block XX, the Ministry of Construction and Urban Development has completed its internal work on the certification of the Company’s Exploitation Area as special purpose land and has submitted the documentation to all other government ministries for comment prior to submission to Cabinet. We continue to press the relevant authorities to conclude this process.

The well that some thought might never get drilled is underway as Velociraptor-1 has spudded in the search for some 200 million barrels of oil and we will all know in around a month’s time the result of a well which could open up the adjacent Raptor prospects for another 375 MMbo.

Oh, and the certification of Block XX still awaits submission to Cabinet but surely…