Exploration & Production | Drilling / Well Results
PKN ORLEN’s Spuds Second Poland Shale Well
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Today, PKN ORLEN spudded another exploration well in the Lublin region: in the village of Berejów, within the Lubartów licence area. It is already a second horizontal well to be drilled by PKN ORLEN this year.
The results of laboratory analysis of 300 metres of rock samples taken during vertical exploration drilling in the commune of Niedźwiada, which was finished in the first quarter of 2012, have persuaded PKN ORLEN to return to the licence area. The analysis focused on the properties (physical, mechanical and geochemical), as well as the gas and organic matter content of the rock core. The promising results of the study prompted a decision to continue exploration work in Berejów, by drilling a directional well there.
“Such analyses, which usually take months to complete, are a crucial…
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