Strike Energy Ltd. has finished completion and preliminary testing operations at Davenport 1 in PEL 94 in Australia. Beach Energy Ltd. is the operator with a 50% interest, Strike holds a 35% interest, and Senex Energy Ltd. has a 15% interest.
Completion, flowback and testing operations at Davenport 1 commenced on Aug. 2, 2014. A Patchawarra Vu coal zone was perforated and a small fracture stimulation treatment pumped. Coiled tubing operations including nitrogen pumping were then undertaken to clean the wellbore and to artificially lift fluid out of the well. Encouraging hydrocarbon shows were observed via gas detector at surface throughout the duration of the nitrogen lift operations, according to a press release, and an estimated 90% of the frack fluid was recovered during the flowback period.
A plug was then set and the Patchawarra Vm3 coal perforated. Based on the analysis of the data from the lower zone, the joint venture decided to proceed with flow testing of this zone without fracture stimulation using coiled tubing and nitrogen lift. Encouraging hydrocarbon shows were again observed at surface throughout the duration of the nitrogen lift operation.
The well is currently shut in for ongoing pressure observation pending further testing activities.
Analysis of the Davenport 1 pre-fracture stimulation diagnostic fracture injection test (DFIT) indicates that the permeability of the Patchawarra Vu coal seams is broadly similar to that observed in Strike’s Le Chiffre 1 and Klebb 1 wells. Subsequent fracture stimulation and flowback of this interval has confirmed the permeability interpreted from the DFIT.
The Davenport 1 Vm3 coal DFIT and analysis of subsequent flow test data indicate that the Vm3 seam has similar permeability to the underlying Vu coals.
The PEL 94 Joint Venture plans to install a pump and continue testing the un?stimulated Vm3 coal as a single zone test to build on the encouraging results obtained to date. The unstimulated Vm3 completion is designed to minimize the volume of any formation fluid produced ahead of gas desorption.
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