ESG on a roll in NSW
GOOD news continues to flow from Eastern Star’s coal seam gas drilling operations in New South Wales, with the Yallambee-1 corehole intersecting 35.2m of coal within the Bohena seam, the largest intersection of the seam in PEL 238 to date.
The well was drilled to a depth of 894.5m and intersected 7.8m of net coal within the Black Jack Formation, including 5.1m in the Hoskissons coal sequence.
The well also intersected 37.6m of net coal within the Maules Creek Formation, including 35.2m of coal within the Bohena seam.
The well has now been plugged and abandoned as per ESG’s program.
Meanwhile, the company has started drilling the Tintsfield-1 well, 6km west of the recently drilled Coonarah-9.
Tinsfield-1 will investigate the extension of the favourable Hoskissons coal characteristics into the trough east of the Coonarah structure and away from the fault zone which affected Coonarah-9.
The well is also on trend to the thick Bohena coal development encountered in Yallambee-1.
At Bibblewindi, ESG is currently drilling ahead at Bibblewindi-28H, the first of two lateral production shield wells to be drilled on either side of the current Bibblewindi lateral pilot.
Bibblewindi-28H is designed to intersect and connect to the Bibblewindi-29 production well.
The two lateral production wells are being drilled to allow the existing pilot to more effectively draw down the reservoir pressure within the coals in a timely manner.
Each well is designed as a single lateral, drilled for about 100m of inseam before intersecting a single vertical producer.
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