Success in Colombia, Anadarko eyes more

BOGOTA, March 9, 2017 – Ecopetrol on Wednesday announced it had struck gas with the Purple Angel-1 well in the Anadarko-operated Purple Angel block. The find extends the reservoir discovered with Kronos-1 in 2015.

Purple Angel-1 was drilled by the Bolette Dolphin drillship and reached a total depth of 4,795 metres, with a 1,835-metre water table. Gas pay intervals reached a combined thickness of 21-34 metres. The block is owned 50/50 by Ecopetrol and Anadarko.

Ecopetrol reported that the new discovery, combined with the Kronos-1 discovery, means the Kronos field could hold a gas column of up to 520 metres.

This is good news for the Colombian NOC, which announced plans to ramp up its E&P spending to USD 650 million from 2016’s USD 250 million with plans for 6 onshore and 11 offshore wells in 2017.

Anadarko is also mulling more wells, in its Grand Col prospect, which it said it could drill in 2018.

Ernest Leyendecker, Anadarko’s president of international and deepwater exploration, said that the positive results out of Purple Angel-1 suggest there is more to be found offshore Colombia. The company clocked 13,000-square-kilometres of 3D seismic in Grand Col in 2016, which it is now examining.

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