Oz Strike Updates on West Erregulla

Australia’s Strike Energy May 6 said work demonstrating the analogous nature of Waitsia and West Erregulla has yielded further supporting geophysical evidence for a successful drilling result at West Erregulla.

“This new evidence in the geophysical similarities between Waitsia and West Erregulla is exactly why Strike is enthusiastic around the prospectivity of its upcoming drilling campaign. The analogous nature of the two features further explains Strike’s high confidence in a successful result at the West Erregulla-2 well, due to spud in late May,” Strike managing director Stuart Nicholls said.

The West Erregulla-2 well is located within EP469 in the North Perth Basin in Western Australia. Strike is the operator and the holder of a 50% joint venture interest, and Warrego Energy is the holder of the other 50%. 

Strike said it has continuously pointed to the structurally conformable nature of the amplitudes in the Kingia-High Cliff sands at West Erregulla as evidence that they are both charged with gas and high quality /porous in nature. The amplitudes in each sequence at WE show moderate to good structural conformance, it said.

The company has previously said that it is looking to discover the next Waitsia-like gas field as well as several other potentially high value gas and liquids plays in the under-explored North Perth Basin.  The Waitsia field was discovered in September 2014 and has the capability to supply the domestic market with 100 terajoules/d (2.67mn m3/d) of gas for at least 20 years from conventional reservoirs, AWE, which has been acquired by Japan's Mitsui, said in late-2017.