Sound Energy on Monday announced that it has made a significant gas discovery and a potential single gas column at its Tendrara licence, onshore Morocco.

The company before now announced that the first Tendrara well, TE-6, was spud to a measured vertical depth of 2,665 metres and came across the top of the structure and approximately 28 metres of net gas pay.

Sound added on Monday that it has now concluded operations and as at August 7, 2016, achieved a stabilized gas flow rate, post stimulation, of 17.0 m Mmscf/d, which is significantly above initial expectations and represents a highly commercial rate.
“This is significantly above initial expectations and represents a highly commercial rate,” the company’s spokesperson said.

Alongside Schlumberger, Sound Energy is currently getting ready for the second well at Tendrara, TE-7, using sub-horizontal drilling techniques which are expected to significantly boost the individual well flow rate in a success case.

“I am absolutely delighted to confirm a material commercial gas discovery at Tendrara and a resounding success at the first of our three Strategic Plays. I believe Tendrara, Meridja and the Eastern Morocco TAGI play have the potential to be a material hydrocarbon province on a regional scale and therefore to transform both Sound Energy and the Moroccan gas industry. We shall now, together with Schlumberger, proceed with the second well (TE-7 – due to spud later this month) and a further outpost well (TE-8 – expected to spud in Q4 2016), which will provide further insight on the long term potential,” James Parsons, Chief Executive of Sound Energy, told Energy Voice. 

Anita Fatunji