Indonesia Energy Corp. Ltd. discovered a potential natural gas bearing reservoir while drilling the Kruh 28 well on Kruh block, Sumatra Island, Indonesia.
The well was spudded June 22, 2022. The gas interval was found between 976 and 1,006 ft with 25 ft net thickness and supported by wireline logging and geologic logging data. It was not encountered in previous oil wells where IEC reported only oil discoveries. Drilling toward the expected oil zone at 2,836-2,964 ft (subsea TVD depth) is under way.
Kruh 28 is the second of two back-to-back producing wells drilled at Kruh over the past 3 months. The wells advance IEC’s campaign to complete 18 new production wells in Kruh block by end 2024 (OGJ Online Apr. 8, 2022).
Of the eight proved and potentially oil-bearing structures in the 63,753-acre block, three (North Kruh, Kruh, West Kruh fields) have combined proved developed and undeveloped gross crude oil reserves of 4.99 million bbl (net crude oil proved reserves of 2.13 million bbl) and probable undeveloped gross crude oil reserves of 2.59 million bbl (net probable crude oil reserves of 1.12 million bbl) as of Jan. 1, 2019.
IEC holds 100% participating interest in the block.
Alex Procyk | Upstream Editor
Alex Procyk is Upstream Editor at Oil & Gas Journal. He has also served as a principal technical professional at Halliburton and as a completion engineer at ConocoPhillips. He holds a BS in chemistry (1987) from Kent State University and a PhD in chemistry (1992) from Carnegie Mellon University. He is a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE).