No hydrocarbon show at the ROC Oil-operated block 09/05 in the Bohai Bay basin in China, says joint venture partner AWE Ltd.
The well, QK12-3-1D, which is now preparing for abandonment, is the second of the two planned exploration wells in the block. The first exploration well drilled in September 2014 did not confirm the presence of commercial hydrocarbons as well.
The QK12-3-1D well has been designed to test the oil potential of a 3-way dip closed structure matured by 3D seismic data. It comes with two primary stacked objectives, such as the Miocene age Guantao reservoirs and Pliocene age Minghuazhen reservoirs; and a secondary objective of Oligocene age Dongying reservoir.
This week, Triple Energy, too, did not have much luck in China. The Australian explorer failed to find sufficient commercial gas content in its Nioshan-1 well. The preliminary desorption core data showed that at the Bird Mountain location of the well gas leaked out of the coal seams into the sandstone reservoirs.
