Surat Basin CSG work continues
BLUE Energy and Icon Energy are moving ahead with their respective coal seam gas programs in the Surat Basin.
Over in ATP 626P, Icon has submitted well data from its Lydia Pilot wells to independent certifiers Netherland Sewell & Associates for inclusion in the reserves model for the permit.
The company said that laboratory results on the core desorption and absorption, as well as the permeability drawdown tests, confirmed that the coals were fully gas saturated. This was in line with the production gas to surface that Icon had seen during initial dewatering tests.
Icon also noted that it had to make modifications to the storage ponds at the Lydia site due to problems caused by wild pigs in the area.
Dewatering is now expected to be established on a continuous basis before the end of July.
Icon is getting ready to carry out its seismic program in the field and added that negotiations to secure a drilling rig to carry out a new drilling program were well advanced.
Meanwhile, Blue Energy has said that the Mitchell Rig 1180 has completed drilling the first of three CSG coreholes in ATP 854P.
The well, Itude-1, was drilled to a total depth of 299m and intersected geological formations close to prognosis.
Blue said analysis of the core samples was ongoing and the results would form part of a dataset on the Walloon coal measures that would be submitted to reserves certifiers.
Wednesday, 15 July 2009
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