Echo Energy starts well intervention campaign in Camp Molino, Argentina

Echo Energy PLC completed the first of sixteen proposed well interventions and workovers to bring non-producing reserves back into production at Santa Cruz Sur, onshore Argentina.

The first intervention was in the Chorillos block on a well last fully online in 2013. A surface hydraulic pumping unit induced flow and over a 100-hour period the well delivered 305 bbl of high-quality oil, a rate equivalent to about 76 b/d. Prior to the intervention the field was producing 17 b/d from a small number of active wells.

The intervention and workover program is in addition to the company's previously announced program of reactivating previously shut-in wells at Campo Molino oilfield (OGJ Online, Oct. 5, 2021).

Santa Cruz Sur is a collection of five production concessions in the onshore Austral basin, southern Argentina. The license portfolio consists of 12 producing oil and gas fields. Roche SA is operator (30%) with Echo Energy holding the remaining 70%.