Victoria Oil & Gas PLC (LON:VOG) has kicked off flow testing of the La-108 well at the Logbaba gas field in Cameroon.
The AIM-quoted firm said last month that it had finished drilling the well and it confirmed on Wednesday that completion operations are also now complete.
Better than expected flow rates
As a result, Victoria has started flow testing the Lower Logbaba sands, with flow rates from the sands up to 15 million standard cubic feet per day (mmscf/d).
That is better than the company expected and significantly better than the 4mmscf/d which was achieved from the Lower Logbaba sands in well La-107.
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Victoria called the flow rates “encouraging” and it will continue its evaluation of the sands next year before the well is put into full production.
As part of that work, the company will recover a spent perforating gun which currently remains stuck in the well, the company said in a statement on Wednesday.
Once the full production potential of La-108 has been evaluated, Victoria will make a decision on the timing of adding more perforations into the Upper Logbaba sands.
The company has previously said that analysis of the La-108 logs indicated 84.5 metres of net gas sand in the Logbaba formation and current production results have been obtained from perforating 18.7m of sand in the Lower Logbaba only.
Production management plan being prepared
“It is very pleasing to have reached the end of drilling and completion operations on La-108 and the resultant release of the drilling rig,” said chief executive Ahmet Dik.
“This milestone marks the end of the major capital spend on these wells as we move into the production phase. We have also achieved higher than expected flowrates from the Lower Logbaba sands in La-108.
“The Production Management Plan for the well is now being prepared by our team and we expect this to be completed by early 2018.”