Project Profile
Location: Carpentaria Basin, Queensland, Australia
Area: 7,996 km²
Drilling Depth: 6,300 metres
Start-up Year: -
ATP 1112A permit area is located in the Carpentaria Basin of Queensland in the Gulf of Carpentaria approximately 40km West of Normanton. Native title agreements and Environmental Authorities are required before the permits can be granted, and Blue Energy has commenced the process for obtaining these as soon as possible. The area has had little exploration seismic or drilling. The focus will for prospective marine shale facies for shale gas and structural traps for conventional hydrocarbons which have migrated from source rocks in the McArthur Basin. Early Cretaceous sandstones sealed by the mid Cretaceous mudstones within the Carpentaria Basin provide excellent reservoir potential where oil shows have been encountered in these rocks on the southern margin of the basin. Source rocks are known to exist in the Mesoproterozoic of the McArthur Basin.
Operators:
Blue Energy Ltd: Operator with 100% interest