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Canacol Touts 4,035 BOEPD Discovery in Colombia
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Canacol Energy has unveiled details of its sixth gas discovery in Colombia's Lower Magdalena Basin.
Nelson 6 Shallow Porquero Gas DiscoveryEsperanza Exploration & Exploitation Contract, Lower Magdalena Basin, Colombia (100% working interest)
The Porquero reservoir interval in Nelson 6 was perforated between 5,752 and 5,760 ft md and 5,784 and 5,831 ft md and flowed at a final stabilized rate of 23 million cubic feet per day (4,035 barrels of oil equivalent per day) of dry gas with no water at a flowing tubing head pressure of 879 pounds per square inch over a 23-hour test period. The Corporation is finishing the completion of the Nelson 6 well for permanent production via the Corporation's operated Jobo production facility.
The Nelson 6 well was spud on the Esperanza E&P contract on…
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