Falcon Oil & Gas gets Beetaloo boost

Mapping potential: Evaluation raises Beetaloo Basin prospective resources

Irish explorer Falcon Oil & Gas has said a fresh evaluation by RPS Energy has more than doubled the prospective natural gas resources at its Beetaloo basin licences onshore Australia.

Falcon Oil & Gas said that the new resource report had “considered the potential of the whole of the on-block basin”, and that it included data garnered from 2011’s Shenandoah 1 well.

The Dublin-based, Toronto-listed junior said that the independent evaluation raised the prospective gas potential by 153% from 64 trillion cubic feet of prospective recoverable resources to 162 trillion cubic feet.

The same study raised the oil potential at the licences from 18 billion barrels of oil to 21 billion barrels.

The explorer’s four Beetaloo exploration permits cover 7 million acres of the…

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