Project Profile
Location: Carnarvon Basin, offshore Western Australia
Water depth: 4,800 m
The Banambu Deep prospect is situated outboard of the giant Rankin trend gas fields and on trend with the Wheatstone and Pluto LNG developments. Banambu Deep is a gas prospect. It is proposed to drill to a total depth of 4,800m using the Ocean America semi-submersible drilling rig and is expected to take approximately 60 days to complete. The Banambu Deep-1 target was identified after a comprehensive study of the seismic data available in respect of permit WA-389-P. The data included 1440km2 of new 3D seismic shot and processed last year; the new data was merged with existing 3D data available in the block to select the target.
Operators:
BHP Billiton: Operator with 60% interest (as of July 2013)
Cue Energy Resources Limited : 40% interest
Woodside Petroleum: Operator farmed out July 2013
Contractors:
Diamond Offshore: Drilling rig