According to local reports in early-September 2019, state company ENAP has completed Carmelitas 2 new-field wildcat (NFW) on its 100%-held Arenal block with discovery of unconventional tight gas from the Zona Glauconitica Formation in August 2019 after the well was re-entered in July 2019. Carmelitas 2 was previously suspended at its total depth (TD) of 3,147 m (10,325 ft) in June 2014 after it was spudded earlier in the same month.  Arenal block covers 1,331 sq km of land in Magallanes Basin.  ENAP initially filed the EIA with the Chilean environmental regulator, SEA, to re-enter and hydraulically fracture four wells on the Arenal block to investigate the potential of tight gas from the Zona Glauconitica sandstone in early-2018.  Background Information    ENAPâs Arenal block has been the best producer of unconventional gas in Chile the past several years with tight gas from the Zona Glauconitica Formation.
According to local reports in early-September 2019, state company ENAP has completed Carmelitas 2 new-field wildcat (NFW) on its 100%-held Arenal block with discovery of unconventional tight gas from the Zona Glauconitica Formation in August 2019 after the well was re-entered in July 2019.