Halliburton finishes testing third DDW well
Halliburton has finished testing GSPC’s third Deen Dayal West development well and expects to complete it by early August.
GSPC began drilling shallow water well D2 in mid-April using Nabors platform rig #805 and completed drilling to around 5000 metres by mid-June. GSPC has already completed two development wells at block KG-OSN-2001/3, which includes DD-West: D1 drilled to 4900 metres in August 2012 and D3 drilled to 4829 metres in November 2012 - both ready for production pending government approval of GSPC's gas price.
GSPC carried out a price discovery exercise for an initial flow of 2.32m cm/d with 37 companies in February 2013, yielding a price of $14.2/mmbtu. GSPC expects the oil ministry to approve the price in August.
“Permission to begin production is stuck,” he says. “But we're gearing up for production by end-August.
” Besides testing and completion services, Halliburton beat Weatherford in March 2014 to supply specialist 8-½ inch directional drilling tools to GSPC on a two year contract, with an optional one-year extension, for work on six HT/HP wells at DD-West. Halliburton is supplying its geo-pilot rotary system for directional drilling, Measurement While Drilling (MWD) and Logging While Drilling (LWD) tools.
Deen Dayal West is a complex field with temperatures of 350 to 450 degrees centigrade, gas pockets and pressure regression or pockets of low pressure.
