13 February 2020, Turkmengeologiya reported obtaining a "commercial" flow of gas from a depth of 7,000 m in well Uzynada 8 drilled on the Uzynada gas condensate discovery close to the Caspian coast. No further details of the test have been disclosed.  Uzynada 8 was spudded in December 2018 and is a follow-up (outpost) well on Uzynada 7, the discovery well (see Background below). Earlier this month the Turkmen authorities announced positive test results in well Uzynada 1 (2020), and in December 2019 they revealed plans to drill a new well on the Uzynada Gunorta (Uzynada South) structure.  Background Information  The Uzynada discovery is located some 30 km south of the Barsagelmes field (South Caspian Basin). It was discovered by well no. 7 in May 2017. The well flowed gas with condensate at rates of 17.1 MMscf/d and 1,200 b/d, respectively, from the interval of 6,689-6,695 m in the Lower Red Bed Series (Pliocene).   The well has been drilled to 7,150 m and is the first super-deep well in Turkmenistan. It was drilled by Turkmennebit with a Chinese-made âZJ70â heavy drilling rig.   In January 2020, well Uzynada 1 (2020) tested 106,000 cu m of gas/day (3.63 MMscf/d) and 143 tonnes/d (ca. 1,150 b/d) of condensate. The hydrocarbons have been tested from the Lower Red Bed Series, in the interval of 6,746-6,752 m.   The discovery is important for understanding prospectivity of the Block 21âs which lies immediately offshore. Four prospective intervals were identified in well 7 prior to drilling, including the Apsheronian Formation at -3,100 m subsea, the Upper Red Beds (Pliocene) at -4,000 m, and two intervals in the Lower Red Beds at -5,600 m and -6,125 m.   Initial seismic surveys were carried out over the Uzynada structure in 1973 and 1980. At least four exploration wells were drilled in the Uzynada structure in the 1970s, to TDs between 4,200 m and 4,400 m. None of those wells had been successful.
Uzynada-8 appr Uzynada-7 gas-cond discovery area, Caspian coastal area (S. Caspian Basin), reportedly tested a commercial gas flow from some 7,000m depth, no further details.