Bridgeport hits oil on Utopia field

Celebrate: the Utopia-13 well has encountered oil shows in south-west Queensland

Sydney-based Bridgeport Energy has hit oil in the Utopia-13 development well on PL 214 in the south-west of the Australian state of Queensland.

Licence partner Bounty Oil & Gas said oil shows had been observed in the the Murta zone oil reservoir which had similar characteristics to the Utopia-3 production well to the north.

It added about two-to-three metres of net reservoir, out of 4 metres of gross reservoir, was proved above the oil water contact in the well.

Bounty had elected to go non consent in the Utopia-13 well but holds buy back in rights under the joint operating agreement.

The well will now be cased as a production well before focus switches to the…

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