TIDM88E
RNS Number : 9073H
88 Energy Limited
13 June 2017
13 June 2017
88 Energy Limited
Icewine#2 Operations Update
88 Energy Limited ("88 Energy", "the Company", "Operator") (ASX,
AIM: 88E) is pleased to provide an update on Project Icewine,
located onshore North Slope of Alaska.
Highlights
-- Sundry application for stimulation approved
-- Logistic planning on schedule to perform stimulation 17th June
-- Production testing remains on schedule for late June / early July
Icewine#2 Operations Update
The sundry application for execution of the main stimulation
work at Icewine#2 has been approved by the Alaska Oil and Gas
Conservation Commission ("AOGCC"). Based on the interpretation of
data collected in both Icewine#1 and Icewine#2, the final design
submitted was based on two stimulation stages comprising of
multiple perforations in each stage. One stage will be executed in
the lower HRZ and the other in the upper HRZ. These two zones were
chosen largely based on areas with similar stress profiles,
coincident with where hydrocarbon concentration is highest.
The upper zone will be flowed back for up to two weeks before
the lower zone is opened up and comingled with the flow from the
upper zone. An additional two weeks of clean up will occur for the
comingled flow before the Company may be in a position to report
hydrocarbon flow rates.
Production testing remains on schedule for late June / early
July.
Further updates will be made as and when appropriate throughout
the drilling / testing program.
Managing Director, Dave Wall, commented: "The Company would like
to thank its shareholders for supporting the Project Icewine team
in getting us to the cusp of flow testing a potentially significant
resource play in the HRZ shale.
The work done to date by a dedicated group of employees and
consultants has been to a high standard utilising the latest best
practice techniques in industry. This increases the chance of a
successful execution of the program but does not increase the
likelihood of success for the play itself. The remaining key
uncertainties, namely effective creation of complex fractures and
gas to oil ratio, cannot be resolved until the stimulation is
executed."
Media and Investor Relations:
88 Energy Ltd
Dave Wall, Managing Director Tel: +61 8 9485 0990
Email: admin@88energy.com
Finlay Thomson, Investor Relations Tel: +44 7976 248471
Hartleys Ltd
Dale Bryan Tel: + 61 8 9268 2829
Cenkos Securities Tel: + 44 131 220 6939
Neil McDonald/Derrick Lee
Pursuant to the requirements of the ASX Listing Rules Chapter 5
and the AIM Rules for Companies, the technical information and
resource reporting contained in this announcement was prepared by,
or under the supervision of, Mr Brent Villemarette, who is a
Non-Executive Director of the Company. Mr Villemarette has more
than 30 years' experience in the petroleum industry, is a member of
the Society of Petroleum Engineers, and a qualified Reservoir
Engineer who has sufficient experience that is relevant to the
style and nature of the oil prospects under consideration and to
the activities discussed in this document. Mr Villemarette has
reviewed the information and supporting documentation referred to
in this announcement and considers the prospective resource
estimates to be fairly represented and consents to its release in
the form and context in which it appears. His academic
qualifications and industry memberships appear on the Company's
website and both comply with the criteria for "Competence" under
clause 3.1 of the Valmin Code 2015. Terminology and standards
adopted by the Society of Petroleum Engineers "Petroleum Resources
Management System" have been applied in producing this
document.
Project Icewine Overview
In November 2014, the Company entered into a binding agreement
with Burgundy Xploration (BEX) to acquire a significant working
interest (87.5%, reducing to 77.5% on spud of the first well on the
project) in a large acreage position on a multiple objective,
liquids rich exploration opportunity onshore Alaska, North America,
referred to as Project Icewine. In June 2016, the gross acreage
position was expanded to 271,119 contiguous acres (210,250 acres
net to the Company). In December 2016 the Company successfully bid
on additional acres. On award the Project Icewine gross acreage
position will be further expanded to 690,000 contiguous acres
(400,000 acres net to the Company assuming all rights are taken
up).
The Project is located on an all year operational access road
with both conventional and unconventional oil potential. The
primary term for the State leases is 10 years with no mandatory
relinquishment and a low 16.5% royalty.
The HRZ liquids-rich resource play has been successfully
evaluated based on core obtained in the recently completed
(December 2015) Icewine #1 exploration well, marking the completion
of Phase I of Project Icewine. Phase II has now commenced, with
drilling at the follow-up appraisal well, Icewine#2, commencing
early 2Q2017. Production testing is scheduled to occur in
mid-2017.
Significant conventional prospectivity has also been identified
on recently acquired 2D seismic across the project acreage.
Cautionary Statement: The estimated quantities of petroleum that
may be potentially recovered by the application of a future
development project relate to undiscovered accumulations. These
estimates have both an associated risk of discovery and a risk of
development. Further exploration, appraisal and evaluation are
required to determine the existence of a significant quantity of
potentially movable hydrocarbons.
Generous exploration incentives are provided by the State of
Alaska with up to 35% of net operating loss refundable in cash.
The primary objective is an untested, unconventional
liquids-rich shale play in a prolific source rock, the HRZ shale
(Brookian Sequence), that co-sourced the largest oil field in North
America; the giant Prudhoe Bay Oil Field Complex. Internal
modelling and analysis indicates that Project Icewine is located in
a high liquids vapour phase sweetspot analogous to those
encountered in other Tier 1 shale plays e.g. the Eagle Ford,
Texas.
Recently acquired 2D seismic has identified large conventional
leads at Project Icewine within the same Brookian petroleum system
and shallow to the HRZ shale, including potential high porosity
channel and turbiditic sands associated with slope apron and
deepwater fan plays. The Brookian conventional play is proven on
the North Slope; the USGS (2013) estimated the remaining oil
potential to be 2.1 billion barrels within the Brookian sequence.
Two recent discoveries in the Brookian have already exceeded these
estimates, with Armstrong/Repsol discovering 1.4 billion barrels in
2015 and Caelus announcing a 2.5 billion barrel discovery in 2016.
Additional conventional potential exists in the Brookian delta
topset play, deeper Kuparuk sands and the Ivishak Formation.
A Prospective Resources Report by DeGolyer and MacNaughton, was
commissioned by 88 Energy to evaluate the unconventional resource
potential of Project Icewine in February 2016 and was released to
the market on 6(th) April 2016.
About 88 Energy: 88 Energy has a 77.5% working interest and
operatorship in 271,000 acres onshore the prolific North Slope of
Alaska ("Project Icewine"). Gross contiguous acreage position will
expand on award of additional leases successfully bid on in the
December 2016 State of Alaska North Slope Licensing Round. The
North Slope is the host to the 15 billion barrel Prudhoe Bay
oilfield complex, the largest conventional oil pool in North
America. The Company, with its Joint Venture partner Burgundy
Xploration, has identified highly prospective play types that are
likely to exist on the Project Icewine acreage - two conventional
and one unconventional. The large unconventional resource potential
of Project Icewine was independently verified by leading
international petroleum resource consultant DeGolyer and
MacNaughton. In addition to the interpreted high prospectivity, the
project is strategically located on a year-round operational access
road and only 35 miles south of Pump Station 1 where Prudhoe Bay
feeds into the Trans Alaska Pipeline System. The Company acquired
2D seismic in early 2016 to take advantage of the globally unique
fiscal system in Alaska, which allowed for up to 75% of 1H2016
exploration expenditure to be rebated in cash. Results from the
seismic mapping and prospectivity review are encouraging, and form
the basis of a conventional prospectivity portfolio for Project
Icewine. In late 2015, the Company completed its maiden well at the
project, Icewine#1, to evaluate an unconventional source rock
reservoir play which yielded excellent results from analysis of
core obtained from the HRZ shale. The follow-up well with a
multi-stage stimulation and test of the HRZ shale, Icewine#2, spud
in early 2Q2017.
This information is provided by RNS
The company news service from the London Stock Exchange
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