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Gripen Gas Drilling Results for Sweden Alum Shale Well
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Gripen Gas announced today the drilling results from their Ekeby Permit, onshore Sweden. Four shallow vertical wells tested the prospectivity of biogenic gas from the organic rich Cambro-- Ordovician Alum Shale over an area covering about 150km2.
The prospective Alum Shale was encountered at depths of 75--85metres in the wells and all wells had gas shows whilst drilling. One well cored the Alum Shale section.All wells were drill stem tested.
The laboratory measured methane content of a gas sample collected at GH--2 is 97.5%.
Gripen gas will return, initially, to the discovery at GH--2 later in the second quarter of 2012 to drill up to 2 appraisal wells. Chairman, Torgny Berglund, said: “We are delighted with these results. These exploration wells, in a new basin, prove the concept of…
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