Norwest Reports Arrowsmith-2 at Total Depth

Norwest Energy NL has announced that Arrowsmith-2 exploration well (EP413 North Perth Basin) has reached total depth at 3340 metres.

Both the gas log and logging while drilling showed encouraging gas responses in the top of the High Cliff Sandstone conventional gas objective.

The gas responses below the High Cliff reservoir into the deeper Holmwood member, were less encouraging suggesting that it was unlikely to encounter commercial hydrocarbons below this depth, accordingly it was decided to call total depth at 3340 metres.

Norwest said that Arrowsmith-2 had successfully achieved its objectives of: cutting two cores from the unconventional shale gas sequences the Carynginia Formation and the Irwin River Coal Measures, and identifying the potential for conventional gas of the High Cliff Sandstone in the Arrowsmith-2 immediate area.

The participants in Arrowsmith 2 are Norwest Energy NL (as operator) as to 27.945%, together with AWE Limited (44.252%) and Bharat PetroResources Ltd (27.803%).