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Beach plans Yolla infill

well offshore Australia

PROJECTS & AUSTRALIA’S Beach Energy is proposing to The plan is currently under assessment by
COMPANIES drill a single new infill well at the Yolla field in NOPSEMA. Efforts to advance the project come
the Bass Basin offshore Victoria. after Beach said in May that seismic re-pro-
The National Offshore Petroleum Safety and cessing had identified a new Yolla West infield
Environmental Management Authority (NOP- opportunity, drillable from the existing Yolla
SEMA), Australia’s regulator, has confirmed that platform. Development of Yolla West is seen as
Beach submitted the environmental plan for a “lower-cost, nearer-term and higher-return-
the project on June 3. According to details pub- ing investment opportunity”, according to that
lished on the regulator’s website, the well will be announcement.
drilled in water depths of roughly 80 metres, 147 If hydrocarbons are found at Yolla West,
km south of Kilcunda in the Bass Strait. Work is the well could be connected to the Lang Lang
anticipated to begin in the fourth quarter of 2022 gas plant soon after drilling. This is consistent
and take around 130 days. with Beach’s strategy of maximising throughput
NOPSEMA said that although the well is set at Lang Lang and extending the lifespan of the
to be drilled from an existing rig slot on the Yol- Yolla field. Indeed, the company believes that if
la-A platform, it would be an extended reach well the Yolla West campaign is successful, it could
that is planned to primarily intersect the Yolla return the Lang Lang plant to capacity produc-
West Target. tion rates of 67 terajoules (1.8mn cubic metres)
If the Yolla West target is found not to be com- per day.
mercially viable, the well will be plugged back to Beach also said in May that negotiations were
a predetermined depth and then sidetracked to underway to secure a rig for Yolla West. The
drill to the Yolla North target, according to the company has not yet provided an update on how
published details. these negotiations have progressed.™

NEWS IN BRIEF

GAIL to enter distributed units.
SOUTH ASIA introduce portable and scalable liquefaction
Cambay C-77H re-frack LNG production business, to Government of India’s focused initiatives
The project is envisaged to provide a thrust
operations update endeavour to meet demand to increase the share of natural gas in the
primary energy basket. Further, GAIL is
Oilex is pleased to announce the following from off-grid locations and also under discussions for manufacturing
update with respect to its operations in India. liquefaction skids in India.
The workover rig arrived on location at transport sector GAIL (INDIA), June 22, 2022
the C-77H wellsite on June 20, 2022 and is
being rigged-up in preparation to pulling the In a first-of-its kind endeavour in the country,
completion string from the C-77H wellbore. GAIL (India) plans to enter into distributed SOUTHEAST ASIA
Civil works to prepare the wellsite for the liquefied natural gas (LNG) production with
re-fracking operations have been completed. the vision to cater the demand from off-grid BP signs Agung I and Agung
All major services and equipment have been locations and transport sector.
secured for the hydraulic fracking operation GAIL has placed order for two small-scale II production-sharing
which is scheduled to commence mid-July liquefaction skids capable of producing LNG
2022. on a pilot basis. Liquefaction will be achieved contracts
The fracking operation is anticipated to through proprietary technology-based
last 7 days and will be followed by flow-back mobile liquefaction skids. These plants will We are pleased to announce that bp has
and testing. We currently expect to be able to help in distribution of natural gas through signed the 30-year production-sharing
announce the results of the re-frac operation liquefaction in new CGD areas, liquefaction of contracts (PSC) for Agung l and Agung ll
in August 2022. gas at isolated fields and will support setting- exploration blocks with the government of
OILEX, June 23, 2022 up of LNG fuelling stations and in bunkering. Indonesia, following the decision to award the
It will be first of its kind in the country to two gas blocks to BP on the second round of

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