Huge returns at Waitsia-3

On 19 October, at the end of a seven-hour clean-up period, the well flowed gas at an instantaneous maximum rate of 50 MMcf/d and an average of 49.5 MMcf/d on an 80/64 inch choke at ~1,929 psig flowing
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Victorian Opposition gets behind gas

The new policy will create a new royalty sharing scheme that will allow local landowners to benefit from gas produced from beneath their land. Landowners will receive a 10 per cent share of the royalty
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Rig secured for Dorado-1

The ENCSO-107 jack-up drilling rig will target the proven Caley Sandstone, which is estimated to hold a mean prospective resource of 545 Bcf of gas and 31 MMbbl of condensate. The Milne Sandstone
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Santos eyeing gas development

The four core assets identified by Santos are located in Papua New Guinea (Western LNG development), Queensland (Eastern Queensland gas), Northern Australia (Barossa) and Narrabri. Narrabri The
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Carnarvon wins Bonaparte permit

AC/P62 covers 1,512 square kilometres in shallow waters which contains multiple attractive leads in the same proven basin that includes the Montara, Jabiru, Skua and Challis oil fields. “AC/P62 is
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Santos completes McKinlay campaign

The campaign comprised four horizontal wells and two vertical wells, and was designed to develop the McKinlay Member reservoir, which is a proven producer. The third and fourth wells, McKinlay-13 and McKinlay-14,
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Beach farms-in to Ironbark

WA-359-P and WA-409-P are adjoining exploration permits that contain the giant Ironbark gas-condensate prospect, which covers approximately 400 square kilometres and is believed to be a multi-Tcf gas field. “We
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Quadrant updates Belgravia prospect

In its December 2017 quarterly report, Woodside Energy as operator of Swell-1 announced that the well had intersected interpreted gas sands across a large gross interval of approximately 450 m. Swell-1
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P’nyang drilling complete

The well, which is being operated by Oil Search on behalf of the PRL-3 Joint Venture, has encountered gas in good quality Toro and Digimu sands, while the Emuk sands appear to be largely water-bearing. “We
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Victoria releases VGP report

Victorian Minister for Resources Tim Pallas launched the report with Victoria’s Lead Scientist Amanda Caples at the Core Library in Werribee on Friday last week. The key findings of the Progress
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