Kuala Lumpur, 19 November 2009 - UZMA Engineering Sdn Bhd’s quest in spreading it’s wings of growth in the region of Inner Mongolia is now imminent with the successful completion of the Baiyin Chagan Da-9 drilling campaign. The drilling program consist of 5-wells cluster aimed mainly at establishing a pattern for further field development and one strategic well at the neighboring field, Da-13 to extend UZMA’s vision in looking ahead for more opportunities to develop into the future.
The wells that were completed on-schedule were also a testing ground for UZMA as this is the first venture into new territory of on-shore heavy oil. As the field is classified as heavy oil area and the crude has low pour point property, the strategy for completion for this first campaign is to cluster-drill all the wells. This would ensure optimum cost spending on operations and minimize the time required to drill and complete the wells.
The results were positively confirming. Based on the data collected from the drilled wells, all six wells showed several layers of producible, good quality oil sands, subsequently proving the oil in–place (STOIIP) of approximately 65 million barrels calculated and predicted earlier in the drilled fault blocks.
