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Cirrus Energy North Sea exploration well has negative results

Published Nov 12, 2008
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Cirrus Energy’s Q14-3 exploration well in the Dutch sector of the North Sea has proved disappointing, despite hitting a gas accumulation in the Triassic Volpriehausen reservoir.

Although finding what Cirrus describes as a “substantial potential gas column”, a sustainable flow rate of gas was not achieved during testing despite acid wash and water injection treatments.

The data acquired during the drilling of the well and its testing will now be analysed to attempt to ascertain not only the likely size of the gas accumulation but also the reasons for the absence of flow during testing.