Tap Oil, an independent oil and gas exploration company from Australia, has announced that Apache is in the process of retrieving a liner that has been stuck in the Taunton wellbore, offshore W. Australia.
In a press release issued today, June 14, the company said that the liner was differentially stuck in the wellbore during the operations on the Taunton-5/5H appraisal well.
“Fishing operations are underway to retrieve the liner,” Tap Oil said.
The Taunton project located in the Carnarvon Basin, offshore Western Australia in a water depth of 20 metres, is operated by Apache Oil Australia Pty Ltd.
Tap, which owns a 13% share in the well, said that the forward plan is to bring back the liner, complete the well and run a cased-hole production test over the Early Cretaceous horizontal section.