Australia

Victoria Petroleum NL, Perth, placed on production the Cuisiner-1 oil discovery in Australia’s Cooper basin pumping 340 b/d of 52° gravity oil with a 1.5% water cut from Cretaceous Murta sandstone at 1,622-34 m.

June 8, 2010

By OGJ editors
HOUSTON, June 8 – Victoria Petroleum NL, Perth, placed on production the Cuisiner-1 oil discovery in Australia’s Cooper basin pumping 340 b/d of 52° gravity oil with a 1.5% water cut from Cretaceous Murta sandstone at 1,622-34 m.

Cuisinier-1 is 6 km west of Santos Ltd.-operated Cook oil field in southwest Queensland near the boundary with South Australia. The well was drilled under the ATP 752P Barta farmout from Santos and Avery Resources (Australia) Pty. Ltd. Oil is trucked to the Jackson facility.

The well, first on the Cuisinier structure, also had oil shows in the Birkhead and Triassic targets. These reservoirs did not test oil from this well, but results in the Cuisinier-Cook area show that significant oil accumulations can be found in different reservoirs in the area, Victoria Petroleum said.

As many as three more wells are planned. The drilling complements Victoria Petroleum’s planned oil production from Fury oil Field in PEL 115 in South Australia, restart of production from Mirage and Ventura oil fields, and the planned November 2010 recommencement of oil production from Growler and Snatcher oil fields in the
Western Margin Oil Project permits PRL 15 and PEL 111.