Comet Ridge Brings Second Queensland CSG Pilot Online

Comet Ridge Limited has brought online its second coal seam gas pilot in the Mira Field located in Queensland’s Bowen Basin.

Mira is a key component in the Joint Venture plan to book gas reserves across a large part of the Mahalo block.

Three of the four Mira pilot wells were currently on-line and pumping water, with the fourth and final well in the pilot yet to start production. The company expects the Mira pilot scheme to pump water progressively over the coming months before sustained gas flows are observed at Mira.

With the Mira pilot now operational, the initial water rates observed from Mira are in line with the high productivity seen when the wells were drilled in January this year, indicating that the drilling mud system and completion timeframes employed at Mira have been effective.

The plan to book reserves at the Mahalo block later this year remains on track with the final core hole in the programme to be drilled during the third quarter of 2013, the company said.