Rawson Oil & Gas Ltd., Sydney, plans an exploratory well 9 km south of a recent natural gas discovery by Beach Energy Ltd., Adelaide, in Australia’s onshore Otway basin (OGJ Online, Jan. 15, 2018).
According to the operator, the Nangwarry-1 well, to be drilled during the fiscal year ending next June, will test Early Cretaceous Pretty Hill and Sawpit sandstones found to be gas-bearing in the Beach Haselgrove-3 ST 1 well.
Rawson described the Nangwarry-1 prospect as a conventional three-way dip, fault-dependent trap analogous to nearby Katnook, Haselgrove, and Ladbroke Grove fields. The fields were found in the late 1980s and have produced a combined total of 70 bcf of gas.
The company has signed a nonbinding memorandum of understanding to sell as much as 4 PJ/year of gas with Weston Energy Pty. Ltd., Sydney, if the Nangwarry well is a commercial discovery.
Rawson holds 50% of the license, PEL 155. Vintage Energy Ltd., Adelaide, holds the other 50%.
