Emperor Energy Ltd., Sydney, engaged AGR to begin planning and design of the proposed Judith-2 exploration well in Judith gas field in eastern Bass Strait permit Vic/P47.
AGR has been contracted initially to provide a project execution plan that outlines well operations, equipment, resources, the required regulatory approvals and set out key dates. AGR also will develop a regulatory timeline to map out the various stages of preparation of the environmental plan.
Other tasks include searching for a suitable rig and identifying opportunities for rig sharing agreements, preparation of a preliminary well design, analysis of well costs, and well operation risks.
This initial work will be carried out in July.
Emperor is involved in farm-in discussions with potential drilling partners and signed a pre-FEED agreement with APA Group in May for early design of a gas processing plant to be located adjacent to the existing Orbost plant owned by APA and currently processing gas from Cooper Energy’s Sole field.
The design basis for the plant is production of 80 MMcfd (90 terajoules/day) of sales gas for a project life of 25 years.
The pre-FEED work will begin in July and involve concept design for a 40 km-long subsea pipeline from Judith to shore and design of an export pipeline from the gas plant to the Eastern Gas Pipeline that runs up the east coast to Sydney.
Judith field has an independently estimated 2C contingent resource of 150 bcf and a 2C contingent condensate resource of 2.2 million bbl.
Judith field was discovered by Shell in 1989. Water depth across the permit varies from 20-85 m.
