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Stone's GOM Amethyst Well Shut In Again After Leak
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Stone Energy announced an operational update on its Amethyst well.
As previously reported, production from Stone's Amethyst well was shut in during late April 2016 to allow for a technical evaluation. During the first week of November, we initiated acid stimulation work and intermittently flowed the Well during the month of November at a rate of 10 15 million cubic feet of gas per day, while observing and evaluating the Well's performance. On November 30, 2016, we performed a routine shut in of the Well to record pressures and determined that pressure communication exists between the production tubing and production casing strings, resulting from a suspected tubing leak.
We are currently diagnosing the pressure information in an attempt to determine the most likely failure points and…
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