Empire Oil and Gas Close to Spudding Red Gully North Well in Perth Basin

Empire Oil and Gas is close to spudding its Red Gully North well in Western Australia’s Perth basin.

The company on Tuesday said that the drilling rig contracted to drill its Red Gully North well is in the process of being mobilised to the well site, which is located four kilometres north of Empire’s Red Gully Production facility in Perth Basin permit EP 389.

Mobilisation to Red Gully North and rig-up is expected to take approximately eight days.

Empire Oil and Gas Chief Executive Officer Ken Aitken said the company had received all necessary regulatory approvals and would proceed to spud the well as soon as rig-up was complete.

“The discovery of gas in the Gingin-1 well drilled in 1965 only 500m to the northeast gives us a high degree of confidence in this well,” Aitken said.