Beach Energy Flows Gas From Cooper Basin Well

Beach confirmed that the Encounter-1 well flowed through a separator at a rate in excess of 500,000 cu ft per day.

April 27, 2012

Tap Oil To Pursue Unconventional Resources In Carnarvon Basin

Tap Oil Limited has entered into a binding agreement with Rusa Resources Pty Ltd to participate in the exploration of a significant acreage position in the onshore Carnarvon Basin, Western Australia.

April 24, 2012

Kea Starts Drilling Taranaki Well

The Douglas prospect is mapped as a Tikorangi Limestone target at a depth of 9,843 feet (3,000 meters), which Kea expects to reach in four weeks.

April 24, 2012

New Zealand Energy Produces From Taranaki Basin Wells

Production rates have averaged 452 bbl/d and 1,052 mcf/d(1) since commencing continuous production in December 2011.

April 11, 2012

Senex Energy's Southern Cooper Basin Well Confirms Potential

Exploration data extracted to date suggests that Sasanof-1 exhibits many of the attributes typically associated with successful unconventional gas fields.

April 11, 2012

TAG Flows Light Oil, Gas In Urenui Formation

Strong initial flow test results were achieved, with each individual well having the capability to initially produce approximately 200 barrels of light oil per day, plus associated gas from high-quality reservoir sands.

April 3, 2012

Timing Confirmed For AWE's Unconventional Gas Program In Perth Basin

Halliburton has confirmed that it will mobilize its hydraulic stimulation equipment to the Perth Basin following completion of its current program of work in eastern Australia, with final timing for the delivery of equipment subject to weather and completion of operations.

March 19, 2012

Beach Announces Flowback At Well Onshore Australia

The well reached total depth at 4,267 m (14,000 ft), after which a 14-stage fracture stimulation program was completed throughout the whole of the gas-saturated Permian target zone, the company said.

February 14, 2012

Second Mira Pilot Well Intersects Consistent Coal Sequence

The drilling rig is currently moving 500 m (1,640 ft) to the east to the Mira 5 well location and is expected to spud that well shortly.

January 9, 2012

GE Oil & Gas Opens Learning/Technology Complex In West Australia

The biggest complex of its kind in Australia, the scope of the project has grown from $80 million to $100 million in response to overwhelming feedback and demand from the oil and gas industry in Western Australia.

December 6, 2011