- This discovery by IPR Energy adds an incremental 2850 barrels per day of oil to the Yidma-Alamein Western Desert Development Lease.
- IPR’s plans for 2024 include six deep and shallow wells and 12 workovers/re-completions.
US-based IPR Energy Group (IPR) has discovered oil with its West AY-1X exploration well onshore Egypt. The operator announced it is considering further wells to exploit the same sand. The successful wildcat tested and produced from a new formation — Kharita — in Alamein-44, adding an incremental 2850 barrels per day of oil to the Yidma-Alamein Western Desert Development Lease. West AY-1X was drilled to a depth of 13,166 feet, utilising a 1500 HP drilling rig.
This deep multi-target exploration well in the Yidma-Alamein concession encountered 33 feet of perforated interval in the Basal Middle Bahariya (BMB) sand. The well was lifted by coil tubing/nitrogen and then placed on production with an electric submersible pump (ESP) at a rate of 703 bpd of oil. IPR is evaluating the option for additional BMB sand development offset wells to West AY-1X. The firm’s plans for 2024 include six deep and shallow wells and 12 workovers/re-completions.
During the same active exploitation campaign, well Alamein-44 was re-completed into a fractured carbonate attic oil zone in the Alamein Dolomite formation, just 25 metres from the original 1966 field discovery well (Alamein-1X), which has already produced 13.8 million barrels of crude. A five-foot interval was perforated at the top of the Dolomite section. It also produced at a stable net rate of 2147 bpd of 33 degrees API gravity oil, confirming the presence of attic oil throughout this prolific formation.