ConocoPhillips flows gas off Australia

Fired up: the Boreas-1 exploration well has flowed gas at a constrained rate of 30.2 MMcfd

ConocoPhillips has begun flowing gas from the Boreas-1 exploration well on Block WA-314-P in Western Australia’s offshore Browse basin.

Well partner Karoon Gas Australia announced on Wednesday that the well had flowed at a constrained stabilised rate of 30.2 million cubic feet per day on a 0.62 inch choke during initial well clean up.

It added that the flow rate was constrained by current surface equipment.

The current testing programme is assessing flow rates in a perforated 70 metre interval, between 4904 and 4974 metres, in the primary Plover formation reservoir.

The production test will continue for about five days and the well data will then be integrated into data that was recovered…

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