Sound Energy confirmed it would carry out a series of tests after identifying reduced well pressure in its Nervesa development.
The Italian onshore asset achieved first gas last month. The Nervesa discovery was originally drilled in 2013.
A company spokesperson said: “On 11 March 2016 the company completed planned static and dynamic profiles, which have identified an initial reduction in well pressure with an associated minor production of water, and suggests that not all perforated levels are yet in production. The company has therefore decided to temporarily further constrain the flow rate from the well to approximately 0.4 MMscf/d.”
Sound will then complete a second static profile in a mid to confirm the level of support before considering re-perforating “select layers of the reservoir or installing a velocity string to facilitate the load up of the minor
amount of liquid being produced”.
Elsewhere, the firm said it plans to start is 40-day drill programme for its first Moroccan Tendrara well in April.