Project Profile
Value: Undisclosed
Location: Tierra del Fuego Island, Chile
Reserves: unknown
Length: 40 kilometres (pipeline collector)
Production (test): 120,000 m3/day average per gas well plus a few cubic metres of condensate
Start-up Year: -
Empresa Nacional del Petróleo (ENAP) of Chile reported the successful intervention to exploration wells known as hydraulic fracturing to produce unconventional gas from the glauconitic zone of Block Arenal, where ENAP operates without partners, located on Tierra del Fuego Island in Chile. This first unconventional gas production is a result of the intervention of vertical exploration wells drilled in late 2012 and early 2013, with rigs owned by ENAP. The wells were subject to these operations to increase the permeability of the rock and facilitate the gas flow. While starting the test period, the initial flow rates reached up to 120,000 m3/day average per gas well plus a few cubic metres of condensate. This flow will decline until the stabilization of the well. Although these preliminary figures may vary, ENAP described these results as the identification of a new unconventional gas field.A collector of 40 kilometres and parallel to the work of intervention was built to start gas production. The production during the testing phase will be used to supply the inhabitants of Punta Arenas and Tierra del Fuego.
Operators:
Empresa Nacional del Petróleo (ENAP): Operator with 100% interest