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Boey said: “Where possible we will be using additional gas to begin flowing in September.
local suppliers for goods and services, while Alongside Roma North, Senex is also in the
also using local businesses to provide things like process of ramping up production from its Atlas
transport, accommodation, trades and other field. Both fields, which fall under Senex’s Surat
services.” Basin development project, are expected to help
Senex is also expanding production capacity lift boost the company’s annual gas production
from Roma North’s gas fields by 50% to 24 TJ and five-fold to around 60 PJ (1.56bn cubic metres)
has said it expects first gas in the third quarter of of gas equivalent by the end of financial year
this year. Jemena, meanwhile, said it anticipates 2024-2025.
State Gas spuds first
Rolleston-West CBM well
PROJECTS & AUSTRALIAN junior State Gas has spudded its
COMPANIES first well at the Rolleston-West coal-bed meth-
ane (CBM) in Queensland State’s Bowen Basin.
The company said on May 17 that it had
begun drilling Rougemont-1 in the 1,414-square
km authority to prospect (ATP) 2062 on May
14 and that the well had reached a depth of 75
metres. Rougemont-1 has a planned total depth
of 800 metres and is targeting gas-bearing coals
at around 500-780 metres deep.
The well is the first of two planned to eval-
uate the Bandanna coals in the eastern arm
of the new Rolleston-West permit, which the
Queensland Government awarded to State
Gas in late 2020.
Located on the crest of a “plunging nose”
in the formation, the coals are expected to
host gas content and permeability compara-
ble to analogue fields in the Santos-operated
Arcadia Valley project and Mahalo gas pro-
ject (MGP). ATP 2062 lies a similar distance
from both projects.
Arcadia Valley is used to supply the (Glad-
stone LNG) GLNG export terminal, while MGP
is operated by Origin Energy and supplies feed- Image: State Gas
stock for the Australia Pacific LNG (APLNG)
project. Comet Ridge owns 40% of MGP, while area of Reid’s Dome and another in the centre
APLNG Santos both own 30% stakes. of the permit.
State Gas said the two Rougemont wells State Gas chairman Richard Cottee said that
would confirm coal thickness, gas content and if all went well with the Rolleston-West drilling
the permeability of the coals in that area of ATP programme then its assets together had “the
2062 through the use of wireline logs, coal sam- makings of a major gas development”.
pling and specific permeability testing. Once the He added: “Knowledge about the potential
initial testing processes have been completed, of Rolleston-West will be vital in informing
the wells will be suspended, to await subsequent the development planning for Reid’s Dome,
production testing. enabling the optimum scaling and location of
Rolleston-West lies adjacent to the already facilities and infrastructure. We will be able to
producing Reid’s Dome project, is located in commence at Reid’s Dome knowing that Rolle-
petroleum lease (PL) 231. The company is ston-West gas will come in, bringing additional
currently appraising undertaking production cash flow and economies of scale for the benefit
testing of three CBM wells in the southern of both project areas.”
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