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West Newton A-2 Extended Well Test Update
West Newton A-2 Extended Well Test Update.
About this update from Union Jack Oil Plc
[{"type":"text","content":"\n \nRNS Number : 2186X Union Jack Oil PLC 18 December 2019 \n\nMarket Abuse Regulation (MAR) Disclosure\nCertain information contained in this announcement would have been deemed inside information for the purposes of Article 7 of Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 until the release of this announcement\n \n18 December 2019\n \nUnion Jack Oil plc\n(\"Union Jack\" or the \"Company\")\nWest Newton A-2 Extended Well Test Update\n \nUnion Jack Oil plc (AIM: UJO), a UK focused onshore hydrocarbon production, development and exploration company is pleased to announce an update on the Extended Well Test (\"EWT\") at the West Newton A-2 appraisal discovery well situated in East Yorkshire within PEDL183.\n \nCompletion and EWT operations on the Kirkham Abbey formation in the West Newton A-2 well were temporarily suspended in August 2019.\n \nDuring the early stages of completion and testing it became apparent that the Kirkham Abbey formation which was previously expected to be principally a major gas discovery was a reservoir containing a 20 metre gas column overlying a 45 metre liquid hydrocarbon column.\n \nThe approved testing programme for the West Newton A-2 appraisal discovery well had originally been designed to test a gas column. Gas flow to surface was achieved and was flared during operations, however, due to the equipment availability at the time, reservoir fluids were not recovered. The oil zone, therefore, was not fully evaluated during the initial phase of testing.\n \nThe EWT was suspended in order to review and revise the well test design to deliver and validate this important onshore resource.\n \nPumping, surface separation, fluid storage tanks and other well testing equipment has now been sourced to undertake this work. Regulatory approvals to re-commence the EWT are currently being sought.\n \nOnce regulatory approvals have been received, the equipment will be mobilised to site at the earliest opportunity and the EWT will re-commence.\n \nThe programme will include pulling the existing completion assembly from the well, running a new tubing and pumping bottom hole assembly and the installation of a pumping wellhead. These operations will be followed by the running in of the pump and well rods and the installation of a surface pumping unit. The w...