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Aussie CSG player drilling ahead in NZ

UNDISTRACTED by its impending merger with junior explorer Comet Ridge, Brisbane-based coal seam gas explorer Chartwell Energy yesterday spudded the Matata-1C exploration core well in the northern Waikato region in New Zealand's upper North Island.

Matata-1C is intended to assess the development of the Oligocene-age Kupakupa seam of the Waikato coal measures. With a planned total depth of 375m, it will take about eight days to drill, according...

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