SDX flows gas from new well in Egypt - ENERGY VOICE

16/07/2018 6:14 am
Allister Thomas

London-listed SDX Energy has had a successful production test from an appraisal well in South Disouq, Egypt.

The SD-4X well flowed for two successive 12-hour periods at 5.4 and 8.6million standard cubic feet of gas (MMscfd) respectively.

It later had an extended 24-hour flow at 10.5MMscfd.

SDX has a 55% working interest and said the well gives it “additional confidence” to deliver a peak production rate of 50MMscfd in South Disouq.

President and CEO Paul Welch said: “We are very pleased to report another successful production test result, at our SD-4X appraisal well in South Disouq.

“We intend to connect this well to infrastructure located adjacent to our SD-1X discovery over the coming months.

“We are targeting a late Q4 2018 start-up of production in South Disouq and this well test result provides us with additional confidence to deliver on our planned plateau rate of 50 MMscfd of conventional natural gas.”

SDX announces spud of SRM-3 oil well in Egypt - OIL REVIEW MIDDLE EAST

Sunday, 17 June 2018 06:39

SDX Energy Inc, the North Africa-focused oil and gas firm, has announced to spud its SRM-3 appraisal well at South Ramadan, Egypt, where SDX has a 12.75 per cent working interest

The SRM-3 well is the last remaining commitment well on the South Ramadan concession. The well is anticipated to take up to 90 days to drill and complete. Based upon the results of this well SDX will decide how to optimise its position in the licence.

London-headquartered SDX is a continual player in North Africa’s oil and gas sector. In May 2018, the company achieved positive results of the well test conducted on the Ibn Yunus 1X well, following the conventional natural gas discovery at South Disouq, Egypt.

Apart from Egypt, SDX has a significant presence in Morocco’s oil and gas sector as well. It made a conventional natural gas discovery at the LMS-1 exploration well on the Lalla Mimouna permit in Morocco, where the company has 75 per cent stake.

Referring to oil and gas activities in North African nations, Paul Welch, president and CEO of SDX, said that the company remain optimistic about further positive news flow as we move towards delivering the first gas from the licence before the end of 2018.

In 2017, the company was awarded gas discovery at KSR-14 and KSR-15 well on the Sebou area in Morocco. In 2016, SDX Energy and Dana Petroleum commenced drilling operations on its high-impact exploration well on Bakassi West in Cameroon, Central Africa’s major oil and gas project.

Oil discovery at Rabul 4 Well, West Gharib Concession, Egypt - SDX ENERGY

24 April 2018

SDX Energy Inc. (TSXV, AIM: SDX), the North Africa focused oil and gas company, is pleased to announce that an oil discovery has been made at its Rabul 4 Well in the West Gharib Concession in Egypt (SDX 50% Working Interest & Joint Operator). 

The well was drilled to a total depth of 5,250 feet and encountered approximately 43 feet of net heavy oil pay across the Yusr and Bakr formations, with an average porosity of 16%. Further evaluation of the discovery is ongoing, after which the Company expects the well to be completed as a producer and connected to the central processing facilities at Meseda. 

Following completion of the Rabul 4 well the Company will move on to the Meseda field, where it will drill two development wells. 

Gas discovery at Ibn Yunus-1X well, Egypt - SDX ENERGY INC.

12 April 2018

SDX Energy Inc. (TSXV, AIM: SDX), the North Africa focused oil and gas company, is pleased to announce that a gas discovery has been made at its Ibn Yunus-1X exploration well at South Disouq, Egypt (SDX 55% working interest and operator). 

The Ibn Yunus-1X well was drilled to a total depth of 9068 feet and encountered 100.8 feet of net conventional natural gas pay in the Abu Madi horizon, which had an average porosity in the pay section of 28.5%. The well came in on prognosis but with a reservoir section that was of better quality and thicker than pre-drill expectations. 

The well will be completed as a producer in the Abu Madi section and then tested after the drilling rig has moved off location. The testing is anticipated to commence between 30 and 45 days after the rig departs, depending on the availability of testing equipment. After a successful test, it is anticipated that the well will be connected to the infrastructure located adjacent to the original SDX discovery in the basin, SD-1X, where production start-up is anticipated in the second half of 2018. 

Spud of Ibn Yunus-1X well, Egypt - SDX ENERGY

26 March 2018 

SDX Energy Inc. (TSXV, AIM: SDX), the North Africa focused oil and gas company, is pleased to announce that it has spud its Ibn Yunus-1X exploration well at South Disouq, Egypt. 

The Ibn Yunus-1X well, anticipated to take approximately 30 days to drill,will be targeting the same conventional natural gas bearing Abu Madi intervals discovered in the SD-1X well in April 2017. This is the first of a planned four well program on the South Disouq concession. The Ibn Yunus-1X well will be followed by two appraisal wells (SD-4X and 3X) in the original SD-1X structure which, if successful, will be used as producers thereby completing the base case development plan for the new field. The Company, in its technically approved development plan by the Egyptian authority,forecasts a plateau rate from the SD-1X field of 50 million standard cubic feet per day ("MMscf/d") of conventional natural gas (SDX 55% working interest). However, with any exploration success,the field plateau rate could potentially increase up to 100 MMscf/d. Start-up of production at South Disouq is expected to commence in H2 2018. The final well in the program, Kelvin-1X, will be an exploration well which, if successful, would be tied into the facilities located at the SD-1X field. The Kelvin-1X exploration well is targeting the same package of sands found to be productive at the SD-1X location but in a geologic structure up-dip of SD-1X, thereby reducing the level of risk and uncertainty when compared to a conventional exploration well. 

Eni's Giant Gas Field Prompts Egypt to End Imports in 2018 - BLOOMBERG

November 15, 2017, 9:52 AM GMT+2Salma El Wardany — With assistance by Hussein Slim, Fatma Abusief, and Tracy Alloway

• Zohr field will start production at 350,000 cubic feet a day
• New gas laws to be adopted in days: Oil Minister El-Molla

Egypt's El-Molla on Zohr Gas Field, Attracting Investors

Egypt will stop importing liquefied natural gas in 2018 and may eventually export gas after it starts producing this year at the giant Eni SpA-operated Zohr field off the country’s Mediterranean coast, Oil Minister Tarek El-Molla said.

Zohr’s output will mostly supply the domestic market, and the nation’s two existing gas-liquefaction facilities are large enough to process any available surplus into LNG for international sale in 2019, El-Molla said Tuesday in an interview in Abu Dhabi. If Zohr and other gas fields generate enough supplies, Egypt may consider adding a third LNG-exporting terminal, he said.

Oil discovery at Rabul 2 Well, West Gharib Concession - SDX ENERGY

5 October 2017 

Egypt SDX Energy Inc. (TSXV, AIM: SDX), the North Africa focused oil and gas company, is pleased to announce that an oil discovery has been made by the Rabul 2 Well in the West Gharib Concession in Egypt (SDX 50% Working Interest & Joint Operator). 

The well encountered approximately 101.5 feet of net heavy oil pay across the Yusr and Bakr sand formations, with an average porosity of 20%. Evaluation is ongoing, after which the Company expects that the well will be completed as a producer in the Bakr and connected to the central processing facilities at Meseda. 

The Rabul 2 well is the last of the commitment wells in the West Gharib concession and was drilled as an offset to the first commitment well Rabul 1, which was drilled in July 2017. Rabul 1 encountered 14.5 feet of net heavy oil pay with an average porosity of 21.2% in the Yusr sands and was subsequently completed as an oil producer in the Yusr sands. 

South Disouq Deep Well Result - SDX ENERGY

5 May, 2017 SDX ENERGY INC. 

Completion of drilling campaign at successful SD-1X well SDX Energy Inc. (TSXV, AIM: SDX), the North Africa focused oil and gas company, announces that drilling on the SD-1X well at its South Disouq concession in the Nile Delta area of Egypt has now reached its second target depth. 

Following the significant natural gas discovery in the upper Abu-Madi section, where the well encountered 65 ft. of net pay section with an average porosity of 25%, drilling continued with the SD-1X well which was subsequently targeting oil from the deeper Cretaceous horizons. 

SDX Starts Drilling Operations at SD-1X Well - RIGZONE

Monday, March 20, 2017
Rigzone Staff

SDX Energy Inc. has commenced drilling operations on the SD-1X well at its South Disouq concession in Nile Delta area of Egypt.

The well is targeting gas in the upper Abu Madi section and oil in the lower AEB & Abu Roash sections. Drilling operations are anticipated to take between 30 and 45 days, depending on what is encountered in the targeted intervals.

SDX also revealed that upon commencement of operations it has been granted a six-month extension to the first exploration period, until September 19. This will allow sufficient time for the SD-1X well results to be fully evaluated prior to making any decision to enter into the second exploration period at South Disouq, SDX said in a company statement.

SDX Energy set to acquire Circle Oil’s Egypt and Morocco assets - PROACTIVE INVESTORS

12 Jan 2017, 07:24 

“Circle's assets present an attractive opportunity to add material production and reserves at an attractive price,” says SDX Energy boss Paul Welch.

SDX has 30 days of exclusivity to finalise a deal
SDX Energy Inc (LON:SDX, CVE:SDX) revealed it has agreed to acquire the Egyptian and Moroccan assets of failed AIM firm Circle Oil.

A non-binding heads of terms agreement has been signed, and it gives SDX 30 days exclusivity to finalise a deal.

Circle Oil’s AIM quoted shares were suspended in June amid financial turmoil and its investors were warned a number of times through the second half of 2016 that there would be ‘little or no value left’ for equityholders.

SDX Energy buys oil assets in Egypt and Morocco for $30 million - AMWAL AL GHAD

Saturday, 28 January 2017 11:02

London-based Oil and gas explorer SDX Energy has bought Circle Oil's subsidiaries in Egypt and Morocco for about $30 million.

The acquisitions are expected to increase working production by 247% to about 4,705 barrel of oil equivalent per day and its net working interest 2P reserves will grow by 64% to 12.03m barrels of oil equivalent.

The company funded the acquisitions by raising about $40m (32.1 million) from a placing of 107.05 million shares at 30p each, which were admitted to trade on AIM on Friday. An application has also been made for the shares to trade on the TSX Venture Exchange in Canada. The shares represent 57.28% of the company's total issued share capital.

SDX Energy 'Well Placed' to Drill South Disouq Well - RIGZONE

by Andreas Exarheas, Rigzone Staff, Wednesday, August 24, 2016

SDX Energy Inc. is well placed to maximize the potential of its South Disouq asset in Egypt, says the company’s president and CEO Paul Welch.

“We have a solid financial position which is underpinned by high-margin production that enables us to generate positive free cash flow down to $15 oil,” he commented in a company statement.

“This, combined with an active, and potentially transformational work program, gives us a high degree of confidence about the future,” Welch added.

3D Seismic Programme on South Disouq, Egypt - SDX ENERGY

LONDON, March 16, 2016 /CNW/ - SDX Energy Inc. (“SDX”) (TSX VENTURE: SDX) is pleased to provide an update on its activities at its South Disouq asset located onshore Nile Delta Egypt.

Further to the announcement on 10 November 2015, regarding the signing of contract for the seismic acquisition of 300km2 of 3D data on the South Disouq concession (SDX 55% WI), the Company announces that the programme has commenced.

The seismic acquisition programme is expected to take approximately three months after which a 3-4 month period of processing and interpretation will be undertaken. The data obtained through this programme will be used to determine the prospectivity on the block followed by the selection of a location for a high impact exploration well forecast to be drilled in Q4 2016.

SDX Energy Hits Oil Pay in Egypt - E&P

Monday, February 8, 2016

The Al Amir SE 23 (AASE-23) development well in North West Gemsa in Egypt has encountered oil-bearing reservoir sections in the Kareem Rahmi and Shagar formations and will be completed as a producer in the Shagar, according to SDX Energy Inc.

The well was drilled to a depth of 3,018 m (9,900 ft) where both the Shagar and Rahmi oil reservoirs were encountered. Log analysis indicates 7 m (23 ft) of net Shagar oil pay and 9 m (28 ft) of net Rahmi oil pay, the release said. The well has been completed as an oil producer in the Shagar and has flowed on test light 42.2 degree API oil at a rate of 3,860 barrels of oil per day (bbl/d) with 2.55 million standard cubic feet of associated gas per day (MMscf/d).

The well will be placed in production in the coming days as soon as the completion rig has moved off location, the release said.