---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001437749-22-028817"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "EGY"
cik: "0000894627"
company_name: "VAALCO ENERGY INC /DE/"
filed_at: "2022-12-09T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-21T07:12:22.337100+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# VAALCO's North Tchibala well producing ~275 bopd with potential for 1,500+ bopd

## Summary
- Well in Gabon brought online early Nov; produced ~8,000 gross bbl through early Dec at ~275 bopd.
- Only 33% of injected completion fluid recovered; cleanup continues; lower stimulated zones may not be contributing.
- Post-frac modeling suggests well capable of rates at or above 1,500 gross bopd.
- First lifting from new FSO TELI completed Dec 4; final Nautipa FPSO volumes removed.
- In Egypt, first horizontal well expected to spud Dec 12; in Canada, 4-10 well tie-in late Dec, drilling starts Jan 2023.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001437749-22-028817
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: EGY
- cik: 0000894627
- company_name: VAALCO ENERGY INC /DE/
- filed_at: 2022-12-09T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: negative
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 2.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/894627/000143774922028817/0001437749-22-028817-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/894627/000143774922028817/egy20221209_8k.htm

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