Incremental Petroleum (IPM) provides operational updates from its Turkey and USA operations.

The company reports the successful re-completion of Selmo-5 at its wholly owned Selmo oilfield in southeast Turkey. This is the third well that IPM has successfully brought back to production after many years of suspension, by carrying out a thoroughly planned workover operation. Selmo-5 is now producing about 80 bopd.

Selmo-5 was drilled in 1964 by Mobil. The well produced at a peak rate of 5,464 bopd for a short period in 1966. Over the years, it steadily decreased to about 200 bopd in 1995, when the well cut to water, probably caused by a shallow casing split. Since 1995, three different operators have each undertaken unsuccessful but extensive workovers to bring the well back on production.

In October 2008 after careful planning, IPM worked over the well using our own rig and crew, and utilising a casing roller, drilling out a portion of an old cement plug, and re-perforating a previously productive interval. These operations resulted in oil production from Selmo-5 being restored for the first time in 13 years.

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