PetroTal Seeks Exploration Partner for the Osheki Prospect in Peru

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(Energy Analytics Institute, Aaron Simonsky, 13.Sep.2018) — PetroTal Corp. is seeking joint venture partners to drill the first exploration well by the fourth quarter 2019 or early 2020.

“We are currently engaging potential joint venture partners to drill the exploration prospect and expect the full data room to be open as soon as September 15, 2018,” reported PetroTal in an official statement, citing its Vice President of Asset Development Chuck Fetzner.

The announcement from the company comes after it reported an independent evaluation of the prospective resources with respect to the Osheki prospect in Block 107, located in the Ucayali Basin of eastern Peru. Drilling permits for the prospect have already been approved.

Calgary-based PetroTal id focused on developing and exploiting the Bretaña oil field, as well as evaluating the Osheki prospect in Block 107, which could provide significant growth for the company.

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Based on an independent assessment completed by Netherland Sewell & Associates, Inc. (NSAI), with an effective date of June 30, the Osheki prospect is estimated to have 534 million barrels (MMbbls) of mean prospective recoverable resources. This estimate is based on a recovery factor of 30 percent of the estimated 1.78 billion barrels of mean prospective original oil in place (OOIP), using maps generated from seismic acquired in 2007 and 2014. The mean risked prospective resources figure for the Osheki prospect is 85 MMbbls.

“Today’s increase in prospective resources at Osheki is a milestone in the development of our asset portfolio in Peru. It firmly endorses the quality of the Osheki prospect, which also contains further potential material upside from additional leads in Block 107,” said PetroTal President and Chief Executive Officer Manolo Zuniga in the company statement.

 

He continued: “This important development follows the Bretaña oil field successfully coming online ahead of schedule in June, with the remaining long-term testing equipment installation on schedule to allow us to increase production from the current ~1,000 bopd to over 2,000 bopd by the end of October. Bretaña has a clear path to increasing production to above 10,000 barrels of oil per day by 2020.”

The prospect was de-risked with a new 3D geologic model supporting Cretaceous age reservoirs with high quality Permian source rocks. Block 107 has four additional leads that, with Osheki, could contain a total of 4.58 billion barrels of recoverable resource in the high estimate case.

“In a report commissioned prior to PetroTal taking on the assets, it was estimated there was 313 MMbbls of mean recoverable prospective resource for the Osheki prospect. In NSAI’s June 30, 2018 report, the estimate has increased by more than 60 percent. When we combined the two seismic programs we were able to see closure in as many as three different horizons. The Osheki prospect is a sub-thrust play similar to the Cusiana complex in the Llanos Foothills of Colombia,” concluded Fetzner.

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