Australia’s Beach Energy has released its monthly drilling report for May 2013.
Cooper Basin Deep Onshore Gas Project
PEL 218 (Beach Energy Ltd (Beach) 70% and operator, Chevron Australia Exploration 1 Pty Ltd (Chevron) 30%)
Boston-2, the seventh vertical well in the current exploration program, reached a total depth of 3,803 metres. The well was cased and will be used for recording downhole micro-seismic observations when Boston-1 is fracture stimulated. The Ensign 916 rig was released on 19 May and is currently drilling the Hervey-1 well.
On 11 May, the Ensign 965 rig was released from Dashwood-1 (cased for future testing) and mobilised to Queensland to commence drilling activities at Keppel-1.
ATP 855 (Beach 42% and operator, Icon Energy Ltd 40%, Chevron 18%)
The vertical exploration well campaign continued with Hervey-1 and Keppel-1. The wells will target the gas potential of the Permian strata within the Queensland portion of the Nappamerri Trough.
Hervey-1 was spudded on 26 May and is drilling ahead in the Westbourne formation at depth of 1,931 metres. Keppel-1, which was spudded on 3 June, is currently drilling ahead at a depth of 911 metres.
Cooper Basin Oil and Gas Exploration and Development
The gas development program in Queensland (Beach 23.20%, Santos Ltd (Santos) 60.3% and operator, Origin Energy Ltd (Origin) 16.5%) continued with Juno-6, which was cased and suspended for future production.
In the South Australian Cooper Basin Joint Venture gas development (Beach 20.21%, Santos 66.6% and operator, Origin 13.19%), Cowralli-24 and -14 were cased and suspended as part of a program that will include sixteen deviated development wells for the Cowralli field from two multi-well surface pads. The subsequent wells, Cowralli-25 and Cowralli-15, have reached total depth with logging to be undertaken at Cowralli-15 prior to both wells being cased and suspended. The rigs will then move to the next locations at Cowralli-16 and Cowralli -26.
The Van der Waals-1 unconventional gas exploration well has drilled ahead to a depth of 3,034 metres for coring of the Roseneath Shale. This well is testing the Nappamerri Trough deep unconventional gas potential
[mappress] LNG World News Staff, June 05, 2013; Image: Beach Energy