Initial Drilling Success of the Jasmine oil field The Jasmine field is situated on the northwestern flank of the Pattani trough, in water depths of 200 ft, producing oil from over 30 separate sandstone reservoirs at depths of 2,600-5,200 ft below sea leve
It came into productiin at the end of 2005, at which time Jasmine’s initial production capacity from a single drilling platform with 11 wells producing was around 10,000 b/d.
Two new drilling platforms will be installed in the field, followed up with six wells, which will increase daily output beginning in early 2007.
Early wells had identified 52 significant individual pay zones within dip closed fault blocks.
The oil and gas zones were encountered within fluvial sandstones in a Miocene-Oligocene stratigraphic section. Oil flowed to the surface in more than 20 drillstem tests.
Following interpretation of the new 3D seismic data, 12 development wells were drilled from the Jasmine A platform.
Development drilling started in April 2005 and took just 75 days to complete at an average rate of 3,488 ft per day with each of the 12 wells hitting its geological targets.
Simultaneously to the development drilling, a five-well exploration program to the north and south of the Jasmine A platform location, with all five wells finding hydrocarbons.
One of the wells reputedly set a record for net oil pay offshore Thailand, intersecting approximately 560 vertical ft of net oil-bearing sandstones, which led to a decision on adding two more platforms, B & C, to the field this year.
These historical wells show that Being on the flank of the prodigious Pattani Trough means high success rate and very productive wells.
With nine new development wells already drilled by Mubby, it's a reasonable supposition as to where those extra 4000 barrels per day are going to come from once Valeura closes the deal in 5 or 6 weeks time.