Thursday 23 July 2009

Pacific Rubiales Field may contain 500m barrels of Oil

The Colombian Oil Minister has said the Rubiales heavy oil field in Colombia may contain 500m barrels of oil (http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601086&sid=axW5d3J_0bgE).

The joint operator of Rubiales - Pacific Rubiales Energy (PRE) has, in a recent investor presentation talked of Oil in Place of nearly 4.2bn barrels for Rubiales/Piriri. Moreover, PRE has recently signed a MoU to pilot the use of "STAR" technology to improve the fields recovery rate from ~15% to up to ~50% (http://www.pacificrubiales.com/common/uploads/1248222702-Corporate%20Presentation%20July%202009.pdf Corporate Presentation July 2009 Pages 13 & 14).

The significance of this to Emerald Energy is if a 50% recovery rate could be achieved in Capella, it would make it a very valuable field indeed.

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