Sunbird Energy Finds More Than Expected Coal at South Africa CSG Project

Southern Africa focused coal bed methane (CBM) and gas explorer Sunbird Energy Ltd has further enhanced the prospectivity of the Mopane Project with the intersection of a thicker than expected coal package and high gas measurements from the drilling of a second core hole (MOP002A).

The core hole, which was drilled to a total depth of 504 metres (m), intersects 128m of the Ecca Coal package between a depth of 366m and 495m. This package contained a net coal thickness of 38.2m and resulted in 29 coal samples being taken for gas desorption analysis. Initial field and laboratory gas measurements indicate that the coals have excellent levels of gas saturation.

The 38.2m of net coal intersected was above pre-drilling expectations of 32m and over double the 15m coal thickness used by independent experts when they determined the project could contain a Best Estimate Gas in Place (GIP) of 1.9 Trillion Cubic Feet (Tcf).