Buccaneer Energy completed an organic oil recovery (OOR) pilot project in its Pine Mills field in East Texas. The pilot was implemented in the northern section of the field’s Battery 3 area.
The treatment involved injecting a nutrient mixture into one water injector and two producing wells in mid-January 2026. Following the treatment, average production in the pilot area doubled and water cut dropped from 80% to zero in one treated well.
The OOR process aims to stimulate naturally occurring microorganisms in the reservoir to alter rock-fluid surface properties and improve the mobility of residual oil in the mature waterflood.
Buccaneer plans follow-up treatments of the remaining producing wells in the Battery 3 area and is evaluating the potential extension of the OOR approach across the Pine Mills field later in 2026.