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Canacol's Oboe-1 Well Hits 2,281 BOE/d in Final Flow Test

Canacol Energy Ltd. reported that Oboe 1, an appraisal well drilled in its Clarinete gas field on the VIM 5 Exploration and Production Contract, has tested at a final rate of 13 million standard cubic feet per day (2,281 barrels of oil equivalent "boepd") of dry gas with no water from the third and shallowest test interval within the Cienaga de Oro reservoir. This flow test is the third of three separate tests executed on three separate gas bearing reservoir intervals within the CDO reservoir encountered in the Oboe 1 well. The first test interval deeper within the CDO tested at a final rate of 26 MMscfpd (4,561 boepd) as reported on February 25, 2016, while the second test interval flowed at a final rate of 27 MMscfpd (4,737 boepd) as reported on March 2, 2016. Canacol, through its…
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