Commingled vertical completions I believe a lot of people missed this in the most recent news release, as they have consistently left it out as an exploration option. As there is no way a 30 day IP rate will be as sexy as a Hz drilled in the best zone. But verticles won't bypass marginal zones and the deepest zones, that would never be added to reserves/produced if u just hit the best couple zones with horizontals above 4,000 feet.
When I saw the surprise plan of test #2, I was pretty sure equinor was testing this idea of vertical development. Which, long term(30+ years), would fully develop the entire plays 1,500m+ column of sands. VLE is/was looking for high impact numbers from some Hz wells to sell out...
Test #2 was a small frack in a poor zone of reservoir, yet, yielded more gas per ton of proppant. IF a full size frac on average of less than ideal reservoir could yield an IP30 of 300 mcf, that would be good, especially if you can do 10-15 of these. And, if you can find 3-5 zones like test #1 with a full frac without sanding off issues, and an average IP30 of 600 mcf. There is room for 25 or more frac over the entire column. Whether 25 zones to bother with exist is a different story... but you can see with some napkin math, that an IP30 of 4.0-6.0 mmcfpd might not be hard to achieve, and they very well could figure out a better frac design for going vertical/thicker zones.
With owned equipment, and easy drilling like dev 1, cheap turkish labor, directional pad drilling(12-16 wells) and minimal connection costs, they should be able to do wells down to 5,000 meters and fracked for 5m
Getting to the bottom of the formation is now important, and I bet VLE and Sean wish they would have put a new bit on and sent it back down the hole and kept drilling at Dev. Short sighted, and shows they absolutely didnt care about the zones below test 1 because they didnt matter for Hz plans.