Turkey: Pinarova-1 casing set

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UK Oil & Gas PLC
18 April 2023
 

UK Oil & Gas PLC

("UKOG" or the "Company")

 

Turkey: Pinarova-1 9⅝ inch casing set

 

UK Oil & Gas PLC (London AIM: UKOG) is pleased to announce that Pinarova-1's 9⅝ inch casing is now set and cemented down to 287 metres below surface. In preparation for drilling ahead through the target Eocene Hoya limestone sequence, installation of the new wellhead and blow-out preventer ("BOP") assembly is now nearing completion. Drilling is expected to resume on schedule in the next few days following final wellhead and BOP pressure test.

 

It is planned to drill cautiously through the Hoya target zone and to open-hole test any zones where good live oil shows are encountered prior to reaching a total depth at around 550 metres below surface. UKOG's geologist will remain on site to identify and, hopefully, sample any live oil to surface within the newly enlarged mud-pits and to help describe Hoya reservoir geology seen in drill cuttings.

 

Pinarova-1, located 6 km north of the Basur-1 oil discovery, is designed to test a working hypothesis, supported by well and seismic data, that the active 41.7˚ API light oil seep found last summer in a seismic shot hole above the Pinarova structure, is directly fed by and connected to an underlying light oil accumulation of some 9 km² areal extent within the Hoya limestones, lying around 300-645 metres below surface (see RNS of 11th January 2023 and 30th  June 2022).

UKOG holds a 50% non-operated interest in Pinarova-1 and the surrounding 305 km² Resan licence, which also includes the as yet undeveloped Basur-1 light oil discovery.

 

Qualified Person's Statement

 

Matt Cartwright, UKOG's Commercial Director, who has 39 years of relevant experience in the global oil industry, has approved the information contained in this announcement. Mr Cartwright is a Chartered Engineer and member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers.

 

 

For further information, please contact:

  UK Oil & Gas PLC

 

    Stephen Sanderson / Allen D Howard

 

Tel: 01483 941493

  WH Ireland Ltd  (Nominated Adviser and Broker)

 

  James Joyce / Andrew de Andrade/James Bavister

 

Tel: 020 7220 1666

 

  Communications

 

  Brian Alexander

Tel: 01483 941493




 

Glossary

°API

a measure of the density of crude oil, as defined by the American Petroleum Institute

discovery

a petroleum accumulation for which one or several exploratory wells have established through testing, sampling and/or logging the existence of a significant quantity of potentially moveable hydrocarbons

limestone

a sedimentary rock predominantly composed of calcite (a crystalline mineral form of calcium carbonate) of organic, chemical or detrital origin.

oil seep

a natural flow of crude oil at or close to the earth's surface whose origin is from a petroleum accumulation or oil source rock at depth.

shot hole

a shallow borehole in which a small amount of explosive is detonated in order to generate a seismic signal

 

 

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