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Petro Matad is the parent company of a group focused on oil exploration, as well as future development and production in Mongolia. The Group’s principal asset is the Production Sharing Contract (PSC) over Matad Block XX, a petroleum block with an area of 14,250km2 in the far eastern part of Mongolia, near the Chinese border. Recently the company signed two more Production Sharing Contracts on Bogd Block IV and Ongi Block V, a total of approximately 71,000km² in central Mongolia. Petro Matad Limited’s shares were admitted to trading on AIM, London Stock Exchange, on May 1st, 2008. The company’s largest shareholder is Petrovis LLC, the largest importer and distributor of petroleum products in Mongolia. The company is the first substantially Mongolian owned company to have its shares admitted to trading on any major international stock exchange.
Petro Matad spuds Davsan Tolgoi-4 well in Mongolia
Petro Matad (LON:MATD) said it spudded the Davsan Tolgoi-4 (DT-4) exploration well, which could be the last well to be drilled in 2010 on the Greater Davsan Tolgoi prospect in Mongolia’s Block XX.
The company announced plans to drill the well last week, when it announced it secured a specially ‘winterised’ rig in eastern Mongolia.
The DT-4 well is being drilled vertically to an estimated target depth of approximately 2,020 metres. The well is being drilled by contractor DQE International.
A further announcement will be made once drilling is completed, or as appropriate. The well will test a four-way fold closure which forms part of the previously untested Davsan Tolgoi West 1 prospect. DT-4 is 3.4 kilometres west of DT-1.
Early this month, Petro Matad called a close to the successful three-hole campaign, which propelled the company’s shares to a massive rally from 45 pence at the start of drilling to a new high at 199 pence back in October.
Each of the previous wells discovered oil in Block XX’s Greater Davsan Tolgoi prospect.
The latest well will test a second prospect, from the 14-lead Block XX inventory.
Davsan Tolgoi West has an estimated 21 million barrels of oil and it is separate from the Greater Davsan Tolgoi prospect.
The DT-4 well is intended to test oil migration - which is now proven in Greater Davsan Tolgoi - and it will assess the ‘charge possibilities’ for other leads and prospects to the west and south.
Overall the wells drilled in 2010 will provide the basis for ongoing revisions to 3D seismic interpretation and reservoir volume estimates, the company said.
The results will also help Petro Matad design an appraisal programme for 2011.
The company highlighted that once DT-4 has been drilled, it will have tested a combined 142.5 million barrels from the pre-drill inventory – which has a pre-drill recoverable resource estimate of 882 million barrels.
Under normal Mongolian winter conditions the specialised rig can operate until mid-December. However Petro Matad said that conditions are unpredictable and can be severe.
DT-4 is scheduled to be completed before mid-December, but mid-winter conditions in Mongolia are unpredictable and can be severe. Accordingly the company said it is reluctant to forecast the possibility of commencing what would be a fifth well, DT-5, in calendar year 2010 although the contract with DQE extends to drill a further well using the same rig.
