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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Senex advances WSGP

The Mimas-2 core well reached a total depth in early December, with initial results from logs and drill stem tests showing net coal and permeability in line with expectations and similar to the quality
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Charlie cooking with gas

The opening ceremony was attended by Shell’s Vice President for QGC, Tony Nunan with Western Downs Regional Council Mayor, Paul McVeigh. The Charlie project, which commenced construction in 2016,
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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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WA axes Canning agreement

The State Government, Mitsubishi Corporation and Buru Energy have mutually agreed to terminate the Natural Gas (Canning Basin Joint Venture) Agreement Act 2013 (WA). The State Agreement covers exploration
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Carnarvon picks up offshore permits

Carnarvon was awarded the AC/P62 permit, which holds the Condor project, over an area of 1,512 square kilometres within the Vulcan sub-basin in the Bonaparte Basin, in November last year. The proven oil
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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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Leigh Creek commences drilling

As announced in its September 2017 Quarterly Report, Leigh Creek was required by the South Australian Energy and Resources Division (the Regulator) to undertake additional drilling to secure geotechnical
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Mira begins production

The Mira-6/2 horizontal-vertical well combination was brought online by APLNG in December last year and commenced producing gas after two days. This combination and the other three vertical wells (Mira-3,
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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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