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Canacol Energy's Clarinete Appraisal Well Flows 25 MMCFPD

Canacol Energy Ltd. has announced that Clarinete 2ST, the first appraisal well drilled in its recently discovered Clarinete gas field on the VIM 5 Exploration and Production (E&P) Contract, has tested at a final gross rate of 25.6 million standard cubic feet per day (mmscfpd) (4,491 barrels of oil equivalent "boepd") of dry gas with no water from the Cienaga de Oro (CDO) reservoir, and at a final gross rate of 4.7 mmscfpd (825 boepd) of dry gas with 1 barrel of water from the overlying Tubara sandstone reservoir.
Canacol, through its wholly owned subsidiary CNE Oil & Gas S.A.S., holds a 100% operated interest in the VIM 5 E&P contract.
The Clarinete-2 well was spud on August 2, 2015, and had to be sidetracked on August 31, 2015 after becoming mechanically stuck in the shallow Porquero…
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