Big Sky Energy Commences Drilling Of Well No. 18 For Ogai Field In Western Kazakhstan
Big Sky Energy Corp. announced that it has commenced drilling of Well No. 18 for the Ogai Field, which is located in its Morskoe Block on the north-eastern shore of the Caspian Sea in Western Kazakhstan. Based on seismic and petrophysical analyses, the company believes that the Ogai structure is a faulted anti-cline that is over 5 square km in areal extent. Two wells; Ogai No. 30 and Ogai No. 1 penetrated it, which were drilled in the 1980s by the Soviets.
The company noted that Well Ogai No. 18 is being drilled from an expanded pad constructed at the Ogai No. 1 well site. It will be directionally drilled a total distance of 3200 m towards Ogai No. 30 at the crest of the Ogai structure.
