Brookside Energy Ltd (ASX:BRK) is encouraged by early indications from the horizontal section of its high-impact Rangers 36-25 SXH 1 Well with extensive oil and gas shows observed.
Rangers is the company's second well in the SWISH Area of Interest (AOI) within the South-Central Oklahoma Oil Province (SCOOP) of the world-class Anadarko Basin.
As we reported last week, BRK had reached the designed measured depth of 10,260 feet in the Sycamore target formation in Oklahoma and preparations were underway for the horizontal section.
Read: Brookside Energy readies to drill horizontal section of high-impact Rangers Well
Drilling started
BRK has started drilling of the horizontal (lateral) section within the Sycamore formation, with extensive oil and gas shows observed in mud logging in this section.
The hydrocarbon shows are consistent with the company’s expectations.
BRK is drilling ahead at a measured depth of ~14,030 feet and has reported that drilling operations are proceeding on schedule, safely and without incident.
Location map showing the location of the Rangers Well and Brookside’s three operated SWISH AOI DSUs.
About the Rangers well
The Rangers Well is a Black Mesa Energy (a controlled subsidiary of Brookside) operated well being drilled by Kenai Drilling Company in Stephens County, Oklahoma.
The well is being drilled as a mid-length horizontal well targeting the Sycamore Formation at an average depth of ~9,750 feet.
It will be drilled to a projected measured depth of ~17,750 feet, with ~7,500 feet of lateral section drilled in the Sycamore that will subsequently be cased with production tubing to be perforated and treated to allow production of oil and rich gas.