PEDEVCO Announces Acquisition of Additional Producing Acreage in the Permian Basin and Updates on New Horizontal San Andres Wells
Initial 3 Horizontal Wells with Average Peak IP of 414 BOEPD and IP30 of 346 BOEPD
HOUSTON, TX / ACCESSWIRE / June 13, 2019 / PEDEVCO Corp. (NYSE American: PED) (the "Company") today announced that, effective June 10, 2019, it closed the acquisition of an additional 2,076 net acres in the Permian Basin and approximately 30 gross barrels of oil per day of operated oil production from a private operator. These assets are located in the San Andres play on the Northwest Shelf of the Permian Basin situated in Chaves and Lea Counties in eastern New Mexico. 1,280 acres of the newly acquired asset are contiguous with the Company's Chaveroo field and are offset to the Company's recently drilled Haley Chaveroo SA Unit 305H horizontal well.
In addition, the Company announced today that three new horizontal wells drilled in the Company's Chaveroo field, the Haley Chaveroo SA Unit 305H, the Jennifer Chaveroo SA Unit 251H, and the Jennifer Chaveroo SA Unit 361H, achieved an average peak daily rate ("IP24") of 414 barrels of oil equivalent per day ("BOEPD") (87% oil) per well, or 99 BOE per 1,000 feet, and an average thirty-day peak initial production rate ("IP30") of 346 BOEPD (86% oil) per well, or 82 BOE per 1,000 feet. The fourth new horizontal well, the Haley Chaveroo SA Unit 345H, is expected to hit its peak rate in November 2019, and the fifth new horizontal well, the Morrison Unit 942H, is estimated to be completed and put online in September 2019.
About PEDEVCO Corp.
PEDEVCO Corp. (NYSE American: PED), is a publicly-traded energy company engaged in the acquisition and development of strategic, high growth energy projects in the United States. The Company's principal assets are its San Andres Asset located in the Northwest Shelf of the Permian Basin in eastern New Mexico, and its D-J Basin Asset located in the D-J Basin in Weld and Morgan Counties, Colorado. PEDEVCO is headquartered in Houston, Texas.
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SOURCE: Pacific Energy Development (PEDEVCO Corp.)
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