Significant Initial Oil Production Establishes Commercial Atzam #4 Well in Guatemala
Range Resources Limited ("Range" or "the Company") is pleased to announce the
following update with respect to its stake in Guatemalan project (in which
Range has an indirect attributable interest of 24%), released by Citation
Resources Limited (ASX:CTR) today:
- Initial 7 foot section (2846-2853ft.) perforated in the Upper C17 carbonates
has produced significant oil and gas to surface immediately post perforation;
- Flow rate of 610 bopd established over 24 hour period - average of hourly
flow rates using varying choke sizes with a recorded peak of + 1,000 bopd;
- No acid wash or reservoir stimulation used flow rate generated by natural
reservoir pressure;
- Oil cut of 99% from producing zone, with strong gas flare;
- Good quality 29° API oil, with calculated natural reservoir pressure of 1300
psi;
- Pressure gauges will now be used to confirm the reservoir pressure reading
from the producing C17 zone to establish updated resource estimates for the
Atzam Project and Atzam #4 well;
- Current Probable Reserve estimate of 2.3m barrels of oil in Atzam #4 well
alone, to be revised on results;
- Production is being stored in onsite tanks - commercial sales of production
to commence; and
- Net backs in Guatemala approximately 50% of the WTI market price -
favourable economics; and
- Highly prospective 13ft. zone in Upper C17 and the C13 and C14 carbonate
sections that are the producing units in the Rubelsanto Field - remain
untested due to the high pressure oil and gas production from perforated zone
- will be perforated in future well production operations.