Oz Galilee Completes Surat Basin Phase 1 Programme

Australian Galilee Energy has completed the first phase of the Kumbarilla (ATP 2043) three well coal bed methane (CBM) exploration programme in Queensland’s Surat Basin “safely and within budget”, it said April 28 in a statement.

“Phase 1 of the Kumbarilla exploration programme has been completed safely and within budget with the final well in the programme, Kumbarilla Central 3 (KC3), reaching total depth of 1,073 metre on 25 April 2020,” it said.

According to Galilee, an extensive suite of new subsurface data has been acquired in this initial exploration programme, including over 200 metre of fullhole core, twenty gas desorption samples and in excess of 600 metre of subsurface image logs.

“This data has confirmed significant net coal development of 22 metre to 25 metre across the area, which exceeds pre-drill expectations. A critically important fracture network has also been confirmed as predicted,” the company said.

The second phase of the exploration programme will focus on the conventional oil and gas potential at Kumbarilla. This represents one of the company's primary prospectivity objectives in this permit, which was originally released by the Queensland government as a conventional block, it said.

Meanwhile, Savanna Rig 406 will be released on April 28 for mobilisation to the ATP 2019 Glenaras gas project in Galilee Basin and drilling of the pilot monitoring well. The drilling of a vertical monitoring well at Glenaras will help measure the pressure in the R3 coal within the pilot area, the company said.