Real Energy completes Tamarama – 1 well stimulation programme in Australia

Australian-based exploration company Real Energy has completed the five-stage fracture stimulation programme of Tamarama – 1 well in Cooper Basin, Queensland.

The programme was performed 2,300m deep.

The company said that it could complete the stimulation programme without any environmental and safety incidence.

Real Energy said in a statement: "The company expects to carry out the flow back and test the gas flows shortly and will advise of the initial results as soon as they become available."

The company is now well placed to unlock significant value from its Cooper Basin acreage and its latest programme has been designed to test Toolachee and Patchawarra formations below 2,300m.

These formations were previously estimated to host 10.2 trillion cubic feet of gas-in-place within the company’s acreage.

The Tamarama-1 well lies in project ATP 927P, comprised of four separate blocks with a total area of about 1,718km² and located 100km north-west of Eromanga in south-west Queensland.

The Cooper Basin is located mainly in the south-west part of Queensland and extends into north-eastern South Australia.

It is named after the Cooper Creek, an ephemeral river that runs into Lake Eyre and its surface is mostly desert, including parts of the Simpson Desert, the Channel Country and Sturt Stony Desert.

In September 2014, Real Energy discovered the presence of basin-centred gas within the Cooper Basin with the Tamarama-1 well intersecting 87m of strong net gas pay in the formations.