Woodside on Banambu Deep home straight

Home stretch: Woodside and its Banambu Deep partners are preparing to drill through the primary target in the offshore well

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Josh Lewis

 20 June 2012 04:04 GMT

Australia’s Woodside Petroleum is preparing to drill into the primary target in the Banambu Deep-1 well in the Carnarvon basin, off Western Australia.

Well partner Cue Energy Resources said in its weekly drilling report on Wednesday the well’s blow-out preventer had been tested prior to running back into the hole to drill to the current depth of 4134.4 meters.

It said Woodside would now run cement casing prior to drilling the 216 millimetre hole section to the primary Intra Mungaroo formation target.

Cue has previously estimated Banambu Deep to hold a pre-drill potential of up to 1.5 trillion cubic feet of recoverable gas.

Woodside is drilling Banambu Deep-1 in WA-389-P to a planned total depth of about…

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