TPL Aims for Upper Reservoir

Canaccord Genuity's Morning Coffee (06/24/2010)
". . .in one of the "stans," Tethys plummeted after announcing initial results from the AKD02 (Doris) appraisal well on the Akkulka Block in Kazakhstan. Based on the interpretation of wire-line logs and core data, the company says oil has been encountered in the Jurassic carbonate sequence that proved productive in the AKD01 (Doris) discovery well drilled approximately 4 km to the southeast. However, the lower Cretaceous sand interval in this well appears to be "water" bearing, probably due to faulting between the two wells. Work is now underway on preparing for a flow test on the carbonate interval following, which it is planned to sidetrack the AKD02 well to the southeast with the aim of encountering the upper reservoir potentially within the oil-bearing zone. The company stresses that these are initial results and that they may be subject to change and modification of the interpretation once the final results of the well have been obtained. The indications of oil in the carbonate sequence do not definitively prove that the well will flow oil on test, or that any flow would be in commercial quantities. Based on current plans it is likely that the initial well test results will be available within the next month."

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