Strike Energy provides update on West Erregulla drilling campaign

Oil and gas exploration firm Strike Energy has announced that the West Erregulla 3 will commence the drilling process and will start drilling the first hole section to a nominal depth of 1,200m.

The West Erregulla gas field is located in the Perth Basin of Western Australia.

It lies within the EP469 asset, with Strike Energy holding a 50% interest and operating the asset. The remaining 50% is with Australian oil and gas firm Warrego Energy.

About three appraisal wells will be drilled down to approximately 5,000m in the West Erregulla field.

Strike Energy stated: “The appraisal wells will be drilled down to ~5,000m with West Erregulla 3 designed to test the continuation of the commercial gas accumulation in the northern fault block and West Erregulla 4 (and 5) to appraise the reservoir distribution in the central fault block.

“After various coring and logging operations, all three wells will be flow tested (on success) and completed as future producers across the Kingia / High Cliff sequences for the proposed Phase 1 production operations. The Wagina gas discovery made in West Erregulla-2 will be appraised during the West Erregulla 4 & 5 wells.”

Last month, Strike Energy signed an agreement with Wesfarmers subsidiary CSBP to convert its gas supply option to a firm 100 petajoule (PJ) gas offtake arrangement at a rate of 25 terajoules/day (TJ/d) over a period of 11 years.

In May, Strike Energy received support from the West Australian state government for its planned development of the West Erregulla discovery.

In February, Strike Energy announced the progression of appraisal and pre-development activities at the West Erregulla gas field.