Lacerta development drilling underway
Posted: 3 July 2008
Sunshine Gas Limited reported that Phase I development drilling at the company's Lacerta Coal Seam Gas (CSG) field near Roma is underway and delivering encouraging results.
Mitchell Rig 101 is currently mobilising to development well CS47, the fourth of forty development wells planned in the south-eastern portion of the Lacerta field.
Sunshine Gas Managing Director Mr Tony Gilby said the company had been employing a new well completion technique developed to optimise gas flows from the Walloon coal seams.
"Preliminary results have been in-line with pre-drill expectations and wells to date have showed strong free gas flows to surface during clean-up," Mr Gilby said.
"These early results are an endorsement of the new completion technique the company has been developing throughout our appraisal drilling program."
Sunshine Gas aims to have two rigs running for the majority of the development program with Mitchell Rig 141 expected to arrive on site during July. Wells are expected to take five days to drill, under-ream, log and complete.
Front End Engineering Design (FEED) work is continuing for the Lacerta gas processing and compression plant.
Mr Gilby said FEED work was expected to be completed in late August with plant commissioning still on track for completion during the June quarter of 2009.
Phase I of the Lacerta CSG development plan is targeting production of 4-8 petajoules of gas a year to support domestic sales while the Company advances its SUN LNG liquefied natural gas project at Gladstone with Japanese partner Sojitz Corporation.
Posted by Richard Price, Editor, EnergyME.com
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