Australian Senex to Start 30 Well coal bed methane drilling campaign

Australian Senex Energy will start a 30 well coal bed methane drilling campaign for phase two of the Western Surat Gas project in Queensland’s Surat Basin this month, it said June 7.

The drilling program is focused on the eastern area of the permits within the Eos and Glenora blocks, and forms part of the company’s A$50mn (US$38mn) investment in the project sanctioned in February 2017, which also involves construction of water and gas handling facilities in parallel with appraisal activities west of the Eos block.

Meanwhile, the company continued with its drilling campaign in the South Australian Cooper basin during May with the drilling of the horizontal section of the Silver Star-1 gas exploration well completed and two new oil exploration wells to be drilled in June.

Silver Star-1 is a high impact gas exploration well located in the northern Cooper basin, targeting basin centred gas in the Patchawarra Trough. The well was spudded in March and reached a total depth of 3,770 metres in late April. Gas shows were observed in the primary target zone, the Patchawarra Formation, and also in the Toolachee and Epsilon Formations, Senex said. 

Shardul Sharma