Shell exploring Tucumcari Cuervo area after gas find

摘要

Field reports indicate that Shell Western Exploration & Production LP, Houston, has been spearheading a play for gas in northeastern New Mexico's nonproducing Tucumcari basin. Shell filed reports with the Mew Mexico Oil Conservation Division in late 2008 on stimulation and testing of the discovery well, on a fee lease in 25-11n-23e, in the Cuervo subbasin 20 miles northeast of Santa Rosa. Upon taking over from Cuervo, Shell conducted multiday flow tests between August 2007 and January 2008. Shell also reported a flow rate of 1.74 MMcfd of gas and 47 b/d of water from Pennsylvanian Strawn sandstones of low permeability and high thermal maturity, at casing pressures of up to 800 psi.