In October 2017, local sources reported that state company YPF has completed the El Jefe (2016) 1 new-field wildcat (NFW) as a gas well at the total depth (TD) of 3,660 m (12,008 ft) on the companyâs 100%-held Tierra del Fuego concession. The well flowed 37.1 Mscf/d of gas and 60 b/d Water from the Oxfordian to Hauterivian Springhill Formation during production testing between the intervals of 3,512 to 3,534 m (11,522 to 11,594 ft) in July 2017. El Jefe (2016) 1 Â was re-entered on its total depth (TD) of 3,660 m (12,008 ft) in mid-July 2017, after it was initially spudded in late-November 2016 on Block E of the Tierra del Fuego concession in Austral Basin. The original planned total depth (PTD) of the well was 3,450 m (11,319 ft), with original objective in the deeper Pliensbachian to Callovian Age Tobifera Formation. El Jefe (2016) 1 is situated 4.7 km south of the Nacientes Rio Moneta discovery from 1999, which tested 22 bo/d at 3,412 m deep in the Tobifera Formation and 1.1 MMscf/d at 3,320 m deep in the lower Springhill Formation marine beds.
El Jefe (2016) 1 op. YPF The well flowed 37.1 Mscf/d of gas and 60 b/d Water from the Oxfordian to Hauterivian Springhill Formation during production testing between the intervals of 3,512 to 3,534 m