Drilling at Nyanda-4 at Oz Reid’s Dome Project Approved: State Gas

State Gas has included the Nyanda-4 well into its drilling program at the Reid’s Dome gas project in the Bowen Basin in Central Queensland, Australia, the company said October 30.

“Further to the 22 October 2018 announcement of the upcoming drilling of Primero West-1, State Gas Limited is pleased to advise that, the Reid’s Dome Gas Project Joint Operating Committee has also formally approved the drilling of the proposed Nyanda-4 coal seam gas and conventional gas well at the PL 231 Reid’s Dome gas project,” the company said.

Nyanda-4 will be located about 50 metres southwest of Nyanda-1. It is planned to be drilled by Silver City drilling immediately following its completion of drilling at Primero West-1, which is expected to occur in November.

The project is in the south west of Rolleston and about 50 kilometres from the Queensland Gas Pipeline, which could connect it to the east coast gas network. The project has been granted a pipeline survey licence.

Gas was first discovered at Reid’s Dome during drilling in 1955.

Earlier this year, State Gas completed flow-testing from the long-shut-in conventional wells in the northern half of PL 231. It reported that despite the age of the wells, which were drilled between 11 and 37 years ago ,they flowed “significant” at lowest record stabilised rates of between 357,000 ft³/d and 658,000 ft³/d.