Buru Energy Ltd., Perth, has reported that the rig for a three-well program in its Ungani field onshore Canning basin and surrounding exploration area in the Kimberley region of Western Australia was mobilized from Perth. All 44 containers holding the modularized rig will be at the Ungani-6 location soon.
Buru said it plans to drill to the top of the Ungani reservoir and then move on to drill and case the equivalent pre-reservoir section with Ungani-7 in early May. That will be followed by the drilling of the Yakka Munga-1 exploration well to evaluate a sandstone reservoir that was oil-bearing in the nearby Ungani Far West-1 well.
Once that program is completed by mid-June, a coiled tubing underbalanced drilling package will be mobilized to drill the respective underbalanced horizontal reservoir sections in the Ungani-6 and Ungani-7 development wells.
Ungani oil field in licenses L20 and L21 is 90 km east of Broome. It was discovered by Buru in 2011 when the Ungani-1 wildcat found oil in the upper 57-m section of a Lower Carboniferous dolomite reservoir. The field is now producing from four wells at around 1,200 b/d of 37 API oil and trucked to the Port of Wyndham for ongoing shipment to market.
Buru has 50% interest and operatorship. Roc Oil Co. Ltd. farmed in to the field last year and holds the other 50%.