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Gold/Mining/Energy : KOB.TO - East Lost Hills & GSJB joint venture -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: johnlag who wrote (1600)	2/12/1999 9:30:00 PM
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Wake up, boys! Can't a fellow step out for a little drink to lick his wounds and know that his buddies are on the job?? <ggg> ------------------------------------------------------------------ Lost Hills blowout still uncontrolled February 12, 1999 By BOB CHRISTIE Californian staff writer e-mail: bchristie@bakersfield.com LOST HILLS — A blown out wildcat natural gas well here has not been controlled and continues to flow water and natural gas from a newly discovered deep reservoir into a containment system on the surface. Reports from investment analysts on Wednesday were that the well had been "effectively killed" using an elaborate plugging method, but they were not confirmed by the well's operators, Elk Point Resources, Inc. of Calgary Canada. Analysts and sources close to the operation said the well was still flowing some water and small amounts of natural gas late Wednesday. However, in a press release issued Friday morning, Elk Point's CEO, Aidan Walsh, reported that the efforts were in fact unsuccessful. Walsh had not commented on the earlier reports. Crews from Boots & Coots International Well Control and Halliburton Co. have been using a "snubbing unit" to try to kill the well from the surface, and the latest attempts this week appeared to be very promising. Workers had cut off a section of the stuck drill pipe deep in the well, then pumped in ball bearings and rubberized pellets to plug it; the attempt quickly failed Monday. Another try Wednesday succeeded in slowing the flow to a much lower rate and cutting the pressure at the surface, but also eventually failed. The Elk Point press release said the company is going forward with plans to use a currently-drilling relief well to intercept the blown well and "kill" it from underground. Another development well is also being planned for the new deep natural gas field, Elk Point reported. The East Lost Hills field, although not yet proven to be commercial, shows huge potential based on the large, sustained flow of gas from the blown well over the past 11 weeks. The relief well was started in mid-December and has now passed 13,000 feet, with primary casing set. Elk Point said the relief well is targeting an intercept point below 16,000 feet, near the bottom of the 17,640-foot-deep blown out well. The wildcat, dubbed Bellevue #1, blew out and caught fire Nov. 23 after penetrating less than 20 feet of the targeted formation. It burned for two weeks, then went out when water began being produced in greater proportion than gas. A diverter assembly was installed, the well capped, the gas was flared and water trucked off. However, the well couldn't be shut down because of pressures reported at about 17,000 pounds per square inch. Copyright© 1999, The Bakersfield Californian \| Email the Webmaster Associated Press Copyright Notice \| Privacy Policy Statement