Gulfsands completes flow testing at DRC-1 well in Morocco

Gulfsands Petroleum has confirmed Dardara Southeast 1 (DRC-1) at Rharb Centre in Morocco as a future producing gas well after the completion of flow testing.

In a six-hour period, the well flowed at an average gas rate of 7.1million standard cubic feet per day on a 32/64th" choke with stable well head pressure of 1230 pounds per square inch.

The COFOR drilling rig will now be moved to the Douar Ouled Balkhair (DOB-1) location, where gas exploration well DOB-1 will be spudded later this month.

Operations on the DOB-1 well are anticipated to take 28 days to complete.

Gulfsands expects that the DRC-1 well can be linked to existing local infrastructure in order to start production of gas for sale in the coming months.

Gulfsands Petroleum CEO Mahdi Sajjad said: "We are very pleased with the flow result from well DRC-1, the performance of which is consistent with the apparent excellent quality of the reservoir observed from drilling and wire line log information.

"We look forward to receiving the results from our next exploration well in the Rharb Centre Permit over the next few weeks."

The Rharb drilling programme is focusing on a series of shallow gas anomalies discovered in the Rharb Centre permit as Miocene-aged fans and channel sands at depths of 1,000m to 1,650m.

COFOR was awarded a contract to provide an onshore drilling unit suitable for the drilling of exploration wells in the Rharb Centre permit area.

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