Mudera No. 2 flows gas

Press, 12 May 1984, Page 24

Mudera No. 2 flows gas

NZPA-AAP Adelaide The Mudera No. 2 exploration and appraisal well in the Cooper Basin is now expected to become a gas well after a flow of 269,000 cubic metres a day during a drill stem test The recovery equates to 9.5 million cubic feet a day and compares favourably to the gas flow of 9.7 million cubic feet a day from the Della No. 17 well late last year, which was completed as a gas well in the same block. In 1983, the largest gas recovery came from the Munkarie No. 3 well in the Toolachee block, which recorded 10.2 million cubic feet a day.

The operator, Delhi Petroleum, said that Mudera No. 2, an exploration/ appraisal well in the Nappa-coongee-Murtee block of Pel 5 and 6, recovered the gas from the interval 2102 metres to 2114 metres in the Patchawarra formation. The well is 750 metres north of the Mudera No. 1 gas discovery well and has

five main targets — the Mesozoic Namur and Hutton sandstone, the Permian Toolachee and Patchawarra formations, and Tirrawarra sandstone. Delhi said the well was drilling ahead in the Tirrawarra sandstone at 2315 metres, with a planned total depth of 2414 metres.

Delhi has a 21 per cent stake in the block, and the operator of the Cooper Basin liquids scheme, Santos, has a 35 per cent stake. Other interest holders are Crusader Resources, with 30 per cent, and Vamgas and the South Australian Oil and Gas Corporation with seven per cent each.