TAG Oil reenters Badr unconventional well

TAG Oil Ltd. successfully reentered well BED 1-7 in Badr oil field (BED-1) in the Western Desert of Egypt.

TAG Oil chose the BED 1-7 vertical well for its first recompletion and evaluation operations in BED-1 (OGJ Online, Dec. 16, 2022). The company perforated the Abu Roash F formation and conducted a diagnostic fracture injectivity test (DFIT). The reservoir was further fracture stimulated with a 110-ton sand treatment and pump schedule with response confirming reservoir models and projected performance.

On flowback, the well unloaded to surface under natural flow and cleaned up about 40% of the injected fracture fluid with significant presence of 23° API oil. Net cumulative oil produced during the short flowback was over 500 bbl which was connected to a flow-line to the BED-1 field’s production unit and onward into a sales pipeline.

The well was shut-in to remove the frac string and install the 3.5-in. production tubing string and down-hole electric submersible pump (ESP) to achieve steady production at stabilized oil rates. The well is expected to be on production within the next few days and TAG Oil expects to detail 30-day rates from the well in mid-June.

Plans are under way to secure a rig to drill the first horizontal well designed with a multi-stage fracture stimulation. All necessary permits have been secured and site construction is under way, the company said. The well is expected to spud in June.