39% owned, non-operated
The Jimbolia licence is located in the proven producing eastern part of the Pannonian Basin, approximately 40km west of Timisoara on the Romanian-Serbian border and covers an area of 23.9km2. The licence contains two discoveries, Jimbolia Veche and Jimbolia Vest that were discovered in 1983 by Petrom.
Zeta Petroleum (Romania) SRL acquired the Jimbolia licence in 2007 and since then has collated all existing well data and 2D seismic data on the field to complete a geological model, identify drill targets and establish a Pmean contingent oil resource of 1.72MMbbls.
Seismic line showing the structure across the Jimbolia Field
The Jimbolia Veche discovery has two hydrocarbon bearing intervals:
- Jimbolia Oil Field: the Pliocene VIII which is an oil reservoir with a gas cap penetrated by two wells: Jimbolia-1 (flowed at rates up to 120 bbls/day and tested at a sustained rate of 50 bbls/day for 6 days) and Jimbolia-6 in which tests indicate an oil leg with an oil density of 780kg/m3 (50° API); and
- Jimbolia Gas Field: the Pliocene III gas reservoir which was brought on stream from 1985 to 1998 and produced 2.89Bcf of gas. It is worth noting that the Pliocene III interval showed a spike in drilling gas during the last well penetration in 2010 suggesting that there may be some remaining reserves, or that some limited recharge may have taken place.
Map showing fluid contacts in Jimbolia
The Company believes there is additional potential in the Jimbolia Vest discovery which was tested (but not produced) over two intervals of the Lower Pliocene IV, with the lower interval (16m) flowing 33% CO2, 61% CH4 and condensate at rates of 196Mscf/d, and the upper interval (8m) testing gas (no flow rate details available).
The discovered oil in the Jimbolia Oil Field has never been produced.
In August 2012, the Company farmed out a 51% interest in the Jimbolia concession to NIS Gazprom Neft, in return for NIS Gazprom Neft funding the drilling of an appraisal well, which is targeted to spud in December 2012.