Drilling of Well 25-H at the Bretana Oilfield in Peru is Expected to Be Completed in November

en.Wedoany.com Reported - On November 9, Canadian company PetroTal provided an update on the construction progress of the 25-H horizontal development well at the Bretana Oilfield in Peru in its third-quarter operations announcement. Drilling operations at the well have continued steadily since spudding on September 21, and the well is expected to reach target depth in November. The well is among the first batch of works under the company's eight-well development plan. After drilling and subsequent operations are completed, it will enter the production stage, and the next development well, 24-H, is scheduled to spud thereafter.

Well 25-H is located in Block 95 of the Maranon Basin in Peru. It is the first new development well drilled at the Bretana Oilfield since January 2025 and the 20th horizontal well implemented at the field to date. The project uses the Estrella 2027 drilling rig, with a designed measured depth of approximately 4,300 meters, targeting the Vivian oil-producing formation at a true vertical depth of approximately 2,700 meters. The originally planned drilling and completion cycle was about 8 weeks, with a budgeted cost of USD 15 million.

According to the operational progress released by PetroTal on October 14, Well 25-H had been drilled to 3,362 meters at that time, and downhole drilling conditions were consistent with pre-drill predictions. The latest announcement on November 9 updated the completion time of the well's target depth to the current month and listed Well 24-H as the next development well planned for construction.

PetroTal plans to restore the Bretana Oilfield's daily production to approximately 20,000 barrels by the end of the first quarter of 2027 through the eight-well development plan. In the third quarter of 2026, the field's average daily crude oil production was 11,465 barrels, a decrease of approximately 725 barrels from the second quarter. During the same period, the company completed tubing and electrical submersible pump replacement operations on five producing wells and implemented injection enhancement measures on two water injection wells. In September, the field's average daily water injection rate reached 187,000 barrels, an increase of 6% from August.