据天然气加工新闻网12月9日卡尔加里报道,在哥伦比亚碳氢化合物监管机构Agencia Nacional de Hidrocarburos管理的最近一轮招标中,哥伦比亚卡纳科尔能源公司(Canacol Energy)已成功获得了三份新的常规天然气勘探合同的100%运营工作权益。
勘探部高级副总裁Mark Teare评论道,我们在这次招标中的成功使我们能够在马格达莱纳河谷盆地中建立自己的现有土地地位,该公司已将其确立为哥伦比亚领先的常规天然气独立生产商。此外,为了扩大勘探范围,我们在马格达莱纳谷盆地中部建立了一个新的常规天然气核心勘探区,在该地区我们赢得了两个区块,总净面积为160,666英亩。我们预计将在2020年对我们的新区块进行探索性活动,以期在2021年和2022年进行钻探。
通过将我们对常规天然气的勘探工作扩展到马格达莱纳山谷盆地中部,该公司继续执行成功的常规天然气勘探战略,以取代位于瓜伊吉拉和拉诺斯盆地的Cusiana-Cupiagua的成熟气田的产量下降。
根据其全资子公司CNE Oil&Gas SAS,Canacol获得了马格达莱纳山谷盆地下游的常规勘探合同VIM 33(155,310英亩,62,852公顷),以及玛格达莱纳河谷盆地中部常规勘探合同VMM 45(12,422英亩,5,027公顷)和VMM 49( 148,244英亩,59,992公顷)。按净面积算,这些常规勘探合同使该公司在哥伦比亚的常规天然气土地面积从110万净英亩增加到140万净英亩,增加了29%。
中标的公司将提交一项勘探工程计划,包括为期三年的勘探合同(第一阶段),涉及地质研究、地震和油井。一旦第一阶段完成,公司可以选择将每份勘探合同的勘探程计划再延长三年(第二阶段)。
郝芬 译自 世界石油
原文如下:
Canacol Energy wins three new Colombian gas exploration blocks
Canacol Energy has successfully secured a 100% operated working interest in three new conventional gas exploration contracts in the recent bid round administered by Colombia’s hydrocarbon regulatory authority, the Agencia Nacional de Hidrocarburos.
Mark Teare, senior vice president, exploration, commented “Our success in the bid round enables us to build out our existing land position in the Lower Magdalena Valley basin where the Corporation has established itself as Colombia’s leading independent producer of conventional natural gas. Furthermore, with a view to expanding our exploration portfolio, we have established a new core conventional natural gas exploration area in the Middle Magdalena Valley basin where we have won two blocks totalling 160,666 net acres. We expect to initiate exploratory activity on our new blocks in 2020 with a view to drilling in 2021 and 2022.”
“By extending our exploration efforts for conventional natural gas to the Middle Magdalena Valley basin, the corporation continues to execute its successful conventional gas exploration strategy to replace declining production from the mature gas fields located in the Guajira and at Cusiana-Cupiagua in the Llanos basin.”
Under its wholly owned subsidiary CNE Oil & Gas S.A.S., Canacol was awarded conventional exploration contract VIM 33 (155,310 acres, 62,852 hectares) in the Lower Magdalena Valley basin, and conventional exploration contracts VMM 45 (12,422 acres, 5,027 hectares) and VMM 49 (148,244 acres, 59,992 hectares) in the Middle Magdalena Valley basin. On a net acreage basis, these conventional exploration contracts increase the corporation’s land position for conventional natural gas in Colombia by 29 % from 1.1 mm net acres to 1.4 mm net acres.
The winning bids commit the corporation to an exploratory work program including geological studies, seismic and wells over a three-year phase (Phase 1) on each of the exploration contracts. Once Phase 1 is complete, the corporation has the option to extend the exploratory work program by an additional three years (Phase 2) on each of the exploration contracts.