Santos hits more Cuisinier oil

Australia's Drew Mitchell goes over for a try during the IRB Rugby World Cup Pool B match at Chaban Delmas Stadium, Bordeaux, France.

Score: Cuisinier-5 is the sixth successful well of the six wells drilled to date

Australian independent Santos has hit hydrocarbons in the Cuisinier-5 well on the Barta Block in ATP 752P in Australia’s onshore Cooper-Eromanga basin.

Permit partner Bengal Energy said the well had intersected 4.5 metres of sandstone in the primary target Cretaceous Murta member DC70 sand, with a preliminary estimate of at least two metres of net pay.

It added a drillstem test recovered 53.2 degree API oil and gas cut drilling fluid, expanding the area of oil bearing sediments a further 1600 metres south of the Cuisinier-1 well and confirming the continuation of the DC70 channel trend from the recently drilled Cuisinier-4 well to Cuisinier-5.

Bengal said the interpreted DC70 channel trend was now seen as…

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