Sound Focuses on Morocco after Poor Badile Results

Sound Energy declared its latest Badile well, Italy, uncommercial July 3. It drilled to a total depth of 4,472 metres and made significant gas shows in an expanded Conchodon dolomitic reservoir section down to 4,387 m and at 4,462-4,472m measured depth. But these slows were also accompanied by water influx and mud losses into what are believed to be fractures in the formation, it said. 

The gas shows suggest a 12 m gas column was encountered below 4,375 m in the Upper Conchodon, beneath which, the water influx and resisitivity data are consistent with a gas/water transition zone and Sound has assessed this gas volume as sub-commercial.

However to verify this assessment, Sound is intending to run a limited set of logs which will, if confirmatory, likely be followed by operations to plug and abandon the well. Sound CEO James Parsons said the find at Badile was "of course a disappointment. Our focus now returns to our more material eastern Moroccan position, where the seismic acquisition has begun and we are positioning for further drilling in Q4 of this year."

Sound has other prospects in Italy where in May it said there were good prospects aside from Badile.

William Powell