DRILLING

Merry month of May for Beach

BEACH Energy continued to pursue its wide-ranging drilling campaigns in eastern Australia throughout May, adding several discoveries to its portfolio.

Merry month of May for Beach

Senex Energy reported earlier this week that its joint venture with Beach in the Cooper-Eromanga Basin had turned up 6.4m of net oil pay in the Mustang-2 well, also discovering a 12m section of good reservoir quality sand.

In Beach's South Australian Cooper Basin JV with Santos and Origin Energy, Big Lake-105, 109, 110 and 115 were all cased and suspended in their respective pad developments as future Patchawarra and Tirrawarra gas producers.

Tirrawarra-82 was drilling ahead towards those formations, while non-pad gas development continued with Moorari-13 cased and suspended as a Toolachee, Epsilon, Patchawarra and Tirrawarra gas well.

Moorar-14 turned up a similar result bar the Epsilon formation.

Santos and Origin continued their JV work with Beach in South West Queensland, with a two-well campaign turning up a gas producer in Vega-4, spurring the JV to chase the same result in Vega-5.

Over in the EP 126 permit in the Northern Territory, the Cullen-1 well began drilling to investigate the conventional and unconventional hydrocarbon potential of the largely unexplored Keep Inlet sub-basin within the wider Bonaparte Basin.

Finally, in the Otway Basin, Bungaloo-1 is rounding off a two-well campaign, undergoing wireline logging operations to address the potential of shale and tight sandstone in the Lower Sawpit shale.

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