Project Profile
Location: Caribbean coast of Colombia
Start-up Year: 4Q 2014
Apamate-1X exploratory well was drilled in the LCA-south prospect, located south of La Creciente “A” and La Creciente “D” gas fields. The well reached a total depth of 12,012 feet MD, and the well found what was initially correlated as the Ciénaga de Oro at 11,135 feet MD (10,611 feet TVDSS) in an 8 1/2 hole, which showed 53 feet of a sandstone package with some interlayered siltstones. During the initial test the well achieved a gas production in excess of 24 mmcfd with a well head flowing pressure of 3,730 psig, restricted by the flow capacity of the test facilities.
The prospective interval is defined in what is now interpreted to be a sequence of on-lapping, gas-bearing sands, at the base of the Lower Porquero Formation. The petrophysical evaluation based on cased-hole logs, LWD, ditch cuttings and mud-logging data, shows average porosity and water saturation of 17% and 23% respectively, in a gross interval of 53 feet with a net-to-gross ratio around 70%.
During 2011, the company planned to drill two additional appraisal wells 500 feet down dip of the Apamate-1 well where the seismic inversion exhibited the strongest anomalies.
FLRSU
The FLRSU consists of a non-propelled barge equipped to convert 69.5 MMscfd of natural gas into LNG (+/- 500,000 tons annually) that will be temporarily stored in on-board tanks with a total capacity of 14,000 m3 and subsequently offloaded either to a permanently-moored floating storage unit or shuttle tankers. The facility will be moored to a jetty and supplied with gas by pipeline from the onshore La Creciente field, located in the Lower Magdalena Valley basin.
Operators:
Frontera Energy (formerly Pacific Exploration & Production): Operator with 100% interest
Contractors:
Exmar: To build and operate a FLRSU
Black & Veatch: Engineering and procurement of the topside liquefaction equipment and packages
Wison Offshore & Marine Ltd: EPCIC contract
Black & Veatch: contract to provide engineering and procurement for topside liquefaction equipment and packages using its patented PRICO® LNG technology