Mosman Oil and Gas Limited (AIM: MSMN) the oil exploration, development, and production company, announces an update on drilling at the Falcon-1 well on the Champion Project in East Texas.
The wireline logs indicate good porosity and hydrocarbons in the primary and secondary Frio sandstone target zones interbedded with shale between circa 7100 to 7550 feet TVD. The primary zone is circa 90 feet thick. The mud logs also showed hydrocarbons in these zones with an increase in mud gas readings from a background of circa 30 units to over 3000 units in the primary zone.
Casing will be run and the well will be flow tested once the drilling rig is released and production testing equipment is on site.
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