Beach Energy Completes Halifax-1 Fracture Stimulation, Australia

Beach Energy said it has completed fracture stimulation over 14 zones in the Toolachee, Daralingie, Roseneath, Epsilon, Murteree and Patchawarra formations of the Halifax-1 well.

The well has been cleaned out with coiled tubing milling operations, and will have the completion string installed shortly. Beach said that flowback operations will commence in the coming days.

Beach Energy also said that it may take several weeks for the well to achieve stabilised levels of gas flow as during the early stages of the flow test it is likely that a mixture of stimulation fluid and gas will be recovered. Over time the volumes of stimulation fluid will decline and stabilized gas flow rates are expected to be announced later in the 1st calendar quarter of 2013.

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LNG World News Staff, February 07, 2013; Image: Icon Energy