Salamander Energy’s West Kerendan-1 (WK-1) exploration well in Indonesia has reached total depth and successfully tested gas from the Upper Berai reservoir. The well will potentially be completed as a future producing well following completion of the testing program, Salamander Energy said.

Wireline logs and pressure surveys confirmed that the Upper Berai in the WK-1 location is gas-bearing with approximately 119 m (390 ft) of net pay penetrated in a gross column of up to 421 m (1,381 ft). Pressure sampling confirmed that the majority of the gas column has the same pressure regime as the Kerendan field, about 10 km (6.2 miles) east of the WK-1 location, and shares the same gas-water contact. The Upper Berai also contains a second separate, deeper gas column with a separate gas-water contact inferred from pressure data to be 84 m (276 ft) deeper than the Kerendan field.

Within the upper gas column, the West Kerendan discovery has been independently certified by Salamander’s reserves auditor to contain recoverable gas in the range of 3.8 Bcm to 19.3 Bcm (133 Bcf to 682 Bcf). Management estimated an additional 1.4 Bcm (50 Bcf) of recoverable gas is available from the lower gas column.

Following the successful test in the Upper Berai formation, Salamander will open discussions with the Indonesian authorities with a view to including the West Kerendan discovery in the Kerendan field plan of development, which is operated by Salamander, the release said.