Oz Senex's Gemba-1 Ready for Production
Australian Senex Energy August 29 said it has successfully completed the production test of the Gemba-1 gas exploration well in the Cooper Basin, enabling the well to be brought online by the end of 2019.
The Gemba-1 gas exploration well (Senex 100%) is located on the southwest margin of the Allunga Trough in the Cooper Basin, five kilometres from existing infrastructure and approximately 37 kilometres south west of the Moomba processing facility.
Following a seven-stage hydraulic fracturing program, a five-day production test was successfully completed in August 2019, Senex said. Gemba-1 produced at a stable flow rate of 5mn ft3/day.
Gemba-1 is expected to be tied into the Santos operated gas gathering network in late 2019, with processed sales gas to then be sold into the domestic South Australian market, the company said.
Senex received a grant of A$5.26mn (US$3.5mn) from the South Australian government to progress the Gemba project. CEO Ian Davies said the production test confirmed Senex’s views on this exciting Cooper Basin gas discovery.
“Test results have proved very encouraging and we are now focused on bringing this gas discovery into production. We will see new gas supply from the Gemba field delivered to the South Australian market by the end of 2019, and we look forward to fully appraising the extent of the Gemba field,” Davies said.