Desire Petroleum

<>Desire Petroleum plc (Desire) is a UK company listed on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM) dedicated to exploring for oil and gas in the North Falkland Basin.

Desire has recently completed a 6 well exploration programme. The Liz well encountered dry gas and gas condensate at 2 separate levels while other wells recorded shows.
Together with the Rockhopper Exploration Sea Lion oil discovery in the licence to the north, these wells have provided significant encouragement for the potential of the North Falkland Basin. The oil at Sea Lion is of particular interest as this has demonstrated that oil is trapped in potentially significant quantities in a fan sandstone on the east flank of the basin. It is believed that over 50% of this east flank play fairway is on Desire operated acreage.

Desire has now completed new 3D seismic acquisition which provides coverage over the east flank play, Ann, Pam and Helen prospects. The results from fast-track processing of priority areas are provided in the 2011 CPR. A farm-out to Rockhopper has been announced. The revised equities are shown on the licence map (subject to regulatory approval and completion of the farm-in well). Desire Petroleum

Rockhopper Exploration

British Geological Survey

Argos Resources



Latest Press Realeses from Desire

Actually i should thank Sir lan and his fellow directors who sold over 4 million shares between them as the rig arrived. Saved me a lot of money.

http://www.pennenergy.com/index/petroleum/exploration-and-production/display/2923430149/articles/oil-gas-journal/exploration-development-2/discoveries/2010/04/desire-has_two-zone.html

Desire has two-zone gas find north of Falklands


By OGJ editors
HOUSTON, Apr. 6 -- Desire Petroleum PLC is plugging its Liz 14/19-1 well in the North Falkland basin as a natural gas discovery in two zones.

Early log analysis indicates the well cut 17 m of net hydrocarbon pay at 2,961-3,031 m in an overpressured, mainly sandstone, reservoir that appears to contain wet gas. A hydrocarbon sample and formation pressures were recovered. No water leg is indicated, and much work is needed to determine reservoir quality, trapping mechanism, and hydrocarbon potential.

The well also recovered dry gas below 3,400 m from a poor-quality reservoir in a pressure regime different from the shallower zone. The rock type and reservoir potential are uncertain. Total depth is 3,667 m.

Desire said, The Liz fan was encountered between 2,540 and 2,568 m. Good oil shows were recorded while drilling but logging and sampling confirmed that this reservoir interval was tight. It is believed the Beth fan was also penetrated between 2,654 and 2,672 m also with oil shows in tight reservoir. In both fans, work will now try to determine whether better quality reservoir may be developed updip.

The company also noted weak oil shows in conglomeratic zones at 2,706-2,932 m.

The well didn't reach the deepest play type in the prerift, and it wasn't suspended for later tests because it wasn't designed to test overpressured gas.

Liz was the first well in a multiwell campaign to explore the North Falkland basin. Rockhopper Exploration will now drill two wells in the North Falkland basin and BHP one in the East Falkland basin before the rig returns to Desire for further drilling later in the year.

Desire's Chairman Stephen Phipps said: "This well has proved complex and highly encouraging. Hydrocarbons have been found in two separate intervals, the geological model for the basin has been confirmed and at least two petroleum systems have been drilled, with hydrocarbon shows recorded over a wide interval. More sandstone was encountered than expected but typically of poor quality. However new reservoir targets have been identified and the challenge will be to predict where these may occur in better quality.

This well has provided some promising results, gas has been discovered at two levels and the prospectivity of the basin has been greatly enhanced. We now intend to carry out technical work to assess and analyze the information that we have obtained from this well and we are very much looking forward to resuming the drilling campaign later in the year.


Source:Oil & Gas Journal

its all over bar the shouting... in my opinion, or maybe a miracle. anyone who bought after14th mar were just pure gamblers. ( see my post no.2010). anyone buying now are same..... all in my opinion. discuss as much as we like but until price gets above 130sh and stays there this aint worth the trouble and anxiety.plenty of others out there.
whatever you do or decide then good luck to you..
regards
jkd
edit. whoops! that should read post no.3964

you're not quite right insofar as there are a number of prospects in which DES has a slice with others - see header map

Back from sunny Cyprus.....happy days!

A post from Oil Brat on iii

Ok folks get a cuppa and start reading and thinking.

The stock market is where the rash give money to the calm.

What happened and what does it mean.

Apologies if some or all of this has been written before. The single most important thing that has occurred as a result of the Liz well is they have tested the geological model over a significant distance from the nearest control point and it has come in very well. This significantly improves the chances of success in other wells. Poor reservoir rock means its tighter than required, this is either result of mineralization or clay content. I would strongly suspect the latter as mineralization is likely to mess up everything including the 17m in the discovery.

Note that they only called this well for Liz and Beth, they declined to comment on the deeper targets but they knew it was possible (Jan in much earlier documentation). It would appear there is an unconformity (a major change in the geology) circa 3000m, they clearly wanted to test this hence the well being at 3500m design.

Note that seismic can not tell you hydrocarbon type and reservoir quality, that can only be done with a drill bit. Liz and Beth have come in as expected but the sandstone is too silty, in this section, note that, in this section. This is a complex depositional environment as indicated by the mention of conglomerates, its a highly variable laustrine fan system. They will now use Senergys sedimentologists in conjunction with the earth model to determine where the clean chanel sands are most likely to be. This has all been done before it isnt easy but there is a science to it.

Most importantly there is charge, and seal, if it wasnt they wouldnt waste time looking up dip. The seal means that the rest of the declared targets and more importantly the number of undeclared targets are now much more likely to be successful. (More on targets later). The charge ie oil presence means the source rock maturity and migration path prediction were correct. A major tick in the box. Incidentally as everything is in place but the permeability and no one can predict that a head of time, the well found the structure as predicted. That means there is an oil filled structure in the North Falklands basin of approx 2 billion bbls in size as per the CPR. So experts state there can be no sizable fields in the NFB? Bamforth get your coat youre leaving.

First gas discovery. A 70m section of reservoir with a 17m section of good reservoir rock. Sorted. Again complex geology but thats a winner. Nice condensate or is it? They dont say where that 17m sits in the 70m. Appeared to be wet gas emm youve got the sample it is what it is or is it, there is no water leg er so is there an oil leg you couldnt draw down on? There is more to this than there are stating. The fact that they have no water contact this far down dip in the structure is extremely good (and indicate very good sealing), but no mention of a gas oil contact, this could well be an oil discovery but the quality channel sand is in the gas cap Watch this space. Senergy will have to do the 3rd party piece on this they cant call their own commerciality on something this complex. If thats condensate then its probably a commercial discovery if its light oil its definitely a commercial discovery. This is only going to get better not worse otherwise they wouldnt have come right out so quickly to call this a discovery.

Second gas discovery. Yes thats what it is but they cant say it out right because they couldnt do the work they did on the first discovery. The well has encountered and I think fairly comprehensively proven a second source system (That should be determined by the geochemistry over the next weeks). Its likely a deeper hot Jurassic source. They have to abandon the well at that point because its too dangerous, note they didnt drill to the desired 200m. Technically they ran out of kick tolerance and they where just too exposed, stopping was the right thing to do. Again if they had found a water contact they would be obliged to declare that as they have specifically declared they didnt in the first discovery. They didnt test because the 9 5/8 shoe couldnt hold the pressure if anything went wrong, they didnt say they didnt test because they didnt think it was worth it, subtle but very important difference! (By the way, there is no way they had Liz and Beth exposed while messing with high pressure gas, so that line about Liz and Beth yet to be sampled was BS in the previous RNS, cheeky but I think my sources where correct)

Two source rocks, this is likely to double the number of targets. Any potential closed structure below the shale seals is now a prospect to be considered as possibly viable. The number of these is likely to be in 100+ range. They say that new reservoir targets have been identified and leave it at that, but they have to cover their collectives where as I can just say it like it is, it will be hundreds, The lower prospects will most probably be hot gas but hell give me that basin wide and Im a happy man.

Ok bigger picture, they have found 3500ft ish of highly hydrocarbon rich formations. They have confirmed two independent petroleum systems and made two discoveries. Lordy you dont see many wells like that one in your career. It is fair to say that the North Falklands basin is prolifically hydrocarbon rich. This is tremendous news for the basin potential as a whole. That is now 6 wells out of 7 with strong hydrocarbon shows (hell 3500ft of it!) that is far far better than the start of the north sea. Basically we are at the start of the next North Sea and our company owns the vast majority of 26 north sea sized blocks of it. You can buy that for approx 180m, the city analysts are clowns, the world financial centre deserves to be moved.

I have been buying this week and will continue to do so while the price is a joke. I am certain I will see a minimum of a 1000% (one thousand percent so there is no typo) return on every pound I invest today over the next three years.

I am often critical of the board but they have played this one brilliantly. Colin sir, as a fellow geologist I tip my hat to you where ever you may be

blimey
a one thousand percent return over 3 years. cant be bad.
so my previous posts seems to suggest its first got to prove itself at 200% from here, the difference being just 800%. so why not wait until proven? only miss out on 200% just my opinion.
regards and good luck.
jkd

too much hype and hyperbole for me to take all that verbiage at all seriously .... quick scan, and it reads like a load of bollocks and/or wishful thinking from someone who holds too many

cynic and a long term dedicated ramper!

i assume you are not linking my revered name with ramping - lol!

cynic
thanks for interpreting my post correctly.
regards
jkd

the article from oil brat flies right in the face of opinions i have sought from 3 different geoscientists. All of whom i have spoken to recently reg informations issued by DES. . His post reminds me of the tactics of the propoganda minister of the Third Reich ,Dr Josef Goebbels, who elevated the working knowledge of plasterers and brick layers to an art form : ' The harder you throw the plaster ,the better it will stick ' Apply this analogy to regards the paradigm of oil formation in the Falklands this then reads ' The bolder the lie,the more credible it is ' ...Oil brat on the back of a recent limp RNS seems to have, somehat arrogantly ,interpreted in a matter of days ,that which in turn puzzled,confounded,thwarted and eventually elluded the cream of Shell geologists for over 3 ferkin years !!!..Many of his figures are plucked from nowhere and his general interpretation is nothing more than pure speculation/ supposition ..Like JKD ill pass on the the initial 200% and await my 800% returns ;-)). For what its worth i happen to believe oil and gas will be found in both falklands basins but at a price, as yet, we simply could not pay !! Or rather cannot pay if economic growth be part of a nations agenda !! ................

So if DES annouces a oil / gas find and the price spikes we should short it ?

To many ifs to come to a conclusion at this time

Oriel brokers note

Desire Petroleum (DES, BUY, 47p), Rockhopper Exploration (RKH, HOLD, 55p) - Liz well result, a gas discovery

. Desire and Rockhopper issued RNS's on the Liz exploration well in
the Falklands yesterday afternoon indicating the well has resulted in a gas discovery.

. The well encountered 17m of net pay in an over pressured reservoir
at 2961m and an initial analysis of a sample suggests the hydrocarbon is a wet gas. Further analysis is required to determine the precise fluid characteristics, but the presence of a wet gas suggests the deeper source may be prospective for oil in the southern part of the North Falklands basin where it is expected to be buried less deeply. The overpressure encountered also highlights that an effective seal overlies this interval.

. Further work is required to evaluate the size of the discovery as
the trapping mechanism is unclear and the well failed to encounter the gas/water contact. The reservoir quality is also unclear but as a kick occurred in this interval and a sample was recovered it may be viable.

. The well also encountered the Liz and Beth fans, where oil shows
were observed in tight reservoirs.

. Whilst this well has been abandoned it appears to have provided
substantial new information which Desire will be able to evaluate over the next three months whilst the rig drills the wells for Rockhopper and FOGL.

. The Ocean Guardian will now move to drill the Sea Lion prospect
(Rockhopper 100%) before drilling Toroa (FOGL 49%) and Ernest (Rockhopper
100%) before drilling the last wells for Desire (which appear likely to target Alpha, Dawn/Jacinta and potentially Rachel).

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a spike is only seen as a spike after the event. no one knows.
dont buy, and short, are NOT the same.
regards
jkd

JKD you sound like a headless chicken and a few others on here.......

Oil brat knows what he is talking..full stop,try looking up wet gas.
Do you know what size they have come across? and how big? and what its worth to the market? untill then you sound like a headless chicken.

This is only the start of a multi well and so far the model on liz was 5 m wrong...get a grip guys shorting or postive but dont fill the thread with crap like ADVFN or iii

m
i was talking to and replying to aldwickk .ok i reckon this aint a buy. but i havnt posted it as a short yet. sorry if you are unhappy that my view is different to yours.
as for the crap, i dont go over there, so i am unable to comment about that, just know that we dont get much on here. i was posting in general and not to topic. for that i say sorry.
good luck to you
regards
jkd
edit, it wont make any difference to price, it will do what it will do.

m
headless chicken? see my posts 3964(page 199) and 4343.(this page) plus my others since.
regards
jkd

Argentina to drill two wells next to Falklands waters in last quarter

http://en.mercopress.com/2010/04/09/argentina-to-drill-two-wells-next-to-falklands-waters-in-last-quarter

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http://www.malverngazette.co.uk/news/8090199.Mathon_based_oil_firm_plugs_initial_Falklands_well/

Mathon-based oil firm plugs initial Falklands well