Beach Energy has completed a four-well Permian gas exploration and appraisal campaign in South Australia.
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This campaign concluded with a discovery at Mokami-1 in ex-PEL 91.
The well tested a western extension of the Southwest Patchawarra gas fairway, targeting the sand packages in the Patchawarra Formation.
Mokami-1 intersected 10.1m of net pay across a 19.2m gross section and was cased and suspended as a future producer.
Drill stem tests were encouraging with a flow rate from one test of 8.6mmscfd and liquids content of 93bbl/mmscf.
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By GlobalDataThe exploration campaign discovered three liquids-rich gas resources from four wells and validated refined mapping techniques.
The Canunda-3 and Crockery-1 discoveries increase the chances of additional stratigraphically trapped gas discoveries in the South West Patchawarra play fairway. The Mokami-1 discovery is encouraging enough for future drilling in the frontier Permian Edge play fairway.
Beach Energy is currently planning an expanded operated gas drilling programme in fiscal year 2018.
This drilling campaign is expected to drill double the number of gas wells in fiscal year 2017.
In its drilling report, Beach has announced that it began a two-well development campaign in March at the Pennington field in PEL 91. This campaign primarily targets the Namur sandstone while the McKinlay member and mid-Namur sandstone are secondary objectives.
Image: Location of the wells. Photo: courtesy of Beach Energy.
