Project Profile
Location: North Perth Basin, 11km north of Dongara, 3km east of Brand Highway, Australia
Drilling Depth: 2,198.1 feet (670 metres)
Start-up Year: -
EP437 is located onshore North Perth Basin located 11km north of Dongara, 3km east of Brand Highway and 14km nor-north-west of the Dongara oil and gas field in Australia. Empire Oil & Gas NL (Empire) as Operator of Exploration Permit EP437 was granted Approval by the Western Australian Department of Mines and Petroleum (DMP) to Drill the Dunnart-2 exploration well, which is located onshore in north Perth Basin, Western Australia. In this regard Drilling Contractors of Australia (DCA) has allocated their DCA Rig 7 to Empire to drill Dunnart-2. The Dunnart-2 oil prospect play style consists of a fault dependent closure located updip from the Dunnart-1 well, which had oil shows. The well has a total depth of 2,198.1 feet (670 metres). The primary reservoir objective is the Bookara Sandstone sealed by the Triassic aged Kockatea Shale. There is provision in the Dunnart-2 drilling program to conduct an open hole drill stem test upon recording live oil shows while drilling.
The primary prospects currently identified by the Joint Venture are Wye Not, Becos and Conder South. The Wye Not prospect was drilled on the crest of the structure by the Wye-1 well in 1996, and tested gas from two reservoirs. The Bookara and the Arranoo sandstone reservoirs flowed 4.4MMscf/day and 2.5MMsf/day respectively. Neither of these reservoirs exhibited a water leg, and both had good, live oil shows during drilling; suggesting that they may have been previously oil-filled, displaced to a down-drip oil rim by subsequent gas migration.
The Becos prospect lies down-dip from the Wye Not prospect, on the migration path from the hydrocarbon \'kitchen\' that lies to the south. The seismic data across the Wye Not and Becos prospects will now be reprocessed by the Operator in order to better define prospect structures, and the existing wells will be subject to petrophysical reinterpretation prior to prospect finalisation and ranking, with a view to selecting a drilling target.
Operators:
Key Petroleum: Operator with 43.47% interest
Rey Resources: 43.47% interest
Pilot Energy: 13.058%% interest
Contractors:
Drilling Contractors of Australia (DCA): Drilling contract using the DCA Rig 7 to drill Dunnart-2