EXPLORATION

Hovea 3 kicks off

Origin Energy and partner Arc Energy have spudded the keenly anticipated Hovea-3 oil well. They anticipate that the top of the Hovea-1 oil zone will be intersected early next week.

The primary objective of the Hovea-3 well is to appraise the oil pool in the Dongara Sandstone reservoir discovered by the Hovea-1 well.

The well has also been designed to allow for it to be deepened to intersect the High Cliff gas zone discovered in Hovea-2 in a down dip location.

It is being drilled from a surface location adjacent to the Hovea-1 well as a new deviated well to a bottom hole location some 310 metres northeast of the original well location and is predicted to intersect the oil column significantly updip from the oil/water contact in Hovea-1.

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