Icon, Beach Flow Gas From Halifax-1 Shale Well

Icon Energy and joint venture partner Beach Energy have flowed the Halifax-1 unconventional vertical well in ATP 855P, located in the Cooper-Eromanga Basin on the eastern side of the Queensland and South Australian border, at a rate of 2.23 MMscfd. This flow rate is expected to increase as the stimulation fluid is recovered and the choke is opened further.

The well reached total depth at 4,267 metres, after which a 14 stage fracture stimulation program was completed throughout the whole of the gas saturated Permian target zone.  Seven stages were completed in the deeper Patchawarra Formation, one in the Murteree Shale, two in the Epsilon Formation, two in the Roseneath Shale, one in the Daralingie Formation and one in the Toolachee Formation. 

The Halifax-1 well is the first shale gas well, in an exploration permit program of six wells, in ATP 855P.