San Leon Prepares for Horizontal Drilling in Poland’s Baltic Basin

San Leon Energy announced the successful completion of flowing testing in the Ordovician shales in the Lewino-1G2 well in Poland’s northern Baltic Basin. The Dublin-based explorer which has received significant investment by George Soros' Blackrock said it ‘achieved all of its goals in the Lewino testing programme.’ 

San Leon gathered required data to ‘understand the recipe for a successful frac and commercial flow in the Ordovician shales.’

The company plans to spud its first horizontal well and multi-stage frac at Lewino 'in the near future'. 

“These learnings will be put to good use in the planned multi-staged fracced horizontal well in the Lewino area, where we believe we shall be able to stimulate the entire vertical extent of the Ordovician interval with each frac, and prove commercial flow rates," Oisin Fanning, Executive Chairman, commented in in a note released on Thursday.

Some newspapers heralded the event suggesting that the successful flowing testing could pave the way to shale gas commercial production. 

On Wednesday, the European Commission presented its energy strategy towards 2030. It did not propose binding measures to address unconventional resources. Green groups said that Commission president Barroso has “bowed to the pressure of the fossil fuel lobby and its political cheerleaders like David Cameron.”