The Mirage-1 discovery well came online as a production well in July last year and is currently producing at 480 barrels per day. Meanwhile, Mirage-2 was confirmed as a producer in the middle of last month.
Seven-inch production casing has been run in Mirage-3 to a depth of 1653m, VicPet said. The casing is planned to be cemented, then perforated over the Murta formation interval 1320m to 1330.5m, which recovered 27 bbls of clean oil over two hours in the first open-hole drill stem test. This equates to an estimated inflow rate of 324 bbls per day.
VicPet said the DST results were similar to those from Mirage-1 and confirmed the extension of the Mirage oil pool to the northern portion of the field.
Managing director John Kopcheff said the results supported the joint venture’s prior expectations.
“If our four-well development program on the Mirage Oil Field is successful, as we hope it will be, we should see an increase in production from the current 400 barrels of oil per day to a target 1,000 barrels of oil per day by mid-2006,” he said.
“Any increase in oil production from the Mirage Oil Field would be timely in this current time of high oil price.”
The Mirage-3 and PEL 115 joint venture comprises operator Victoria Petroleum, which holds a 40% stake, Impress Ventures (40%) and Roma Petroleum (20%).
