ANOTHER OIL FLOW FOR WAPET

Press, Volume CIX, Issue 31907, 7 February 1969, Page 14

ANOTHER OIL FLOW FOR WAPET

(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) PERTH, February 6. Wapet recovered oil from a second level today at Gage Roads No. 1 well. The flow was stimulated into a surging flow at an estimated rate of 300 barrels a day.

The oil was recovered after swabbing (stimulating) between 5838 ft and 5847 ft. Wapet announced yesterday that it had recovered about 40 ban-els of oil by swabbing the intervals between 5775 ft and 5781 ft and 5790 ft and 5804 ft.

Today's oil was 41.2 gravity and yesterday’s 37 gravity. Wapet now plans to plug and abandon Gage Roads No. 1. The pack-up drilling barge Jubilee will be prepared for the long tow to Barrow Island. PREVIOUS FINDS The Jubilee is bound for drilling locations found before Gage Roads. They were found near the proven Barrow field after extensive seismic and other exploratory work. The jack-up barge was brought here from Texas because it was particularly suited to the shallow Barrow waters. It can work in water depths from 16ft to 200 ft. It has a 10ft tide there to cope with.

On completion of Gage Roads No. 1 the Jubilee will

shelter in the lee of Rottnest preparing for the tow of nearly 1000 miles to Barrow. The Jubilee should be at Barrow at the beginning of March, the end of the cyclone season, and will give Wapet the maximum time of northern calm to give the off-shore Barrow- prospects a chance to prove themselves.