Pemex looks to Ixachi follow-up
Work could start this month on delineation well for breakthrough onshore discovery
Pemex has won approval on a plan to further delineate its Ixachi discovery in the Mexican state of Veracruz, which the Mexican state oil player has called its largest onshore find in the last 15 years.
The Mexican state oil company has said the discovery could contain a gross resource of 1,500 million barrels of oil equivalent, representing potential total reserves of about 350 million boe.
The objective of the plan is to “test the lateral and vertical continuity of the productive facies identified in Ixachi-1…and define with greater certainty the volumes and limits of the discovery,” according to a presentation made at a meeting of Mexico’s National Hydrocarbons Commission.
Ixachi-1DEL lies south-east of the original discovery, and, if successful, the company has mapped out a location for Ixachi-2DEL further south-east still. Pemex is also planning to perform an extended-reach production pressure test on the well already drilled to evaluate the rock’s fluid systems of the rock. An acid fracture treatment was seen as helpful on the initial discovery well, officials said.
Work on both the test and the first well could start as soon as this month and extend through the summer with a five-month drilling time, with a possible second well kicking off in August.
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