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Apache whoop at Brulimar-1



By Upstream staff 

US independent Apache said it had struck gas with the Brulimar-1 exploration well, drilled on the WA-356-P Block on Australia’s North-West Shelf.

Apache said it discovered 113 feet of net pay in Upper Triassic Mangaroo sandstones. It added the find marked its fourth consecutive successful well drilled on the play.

The well was sunk by the semi-submersible rig Songa Mercur.

Apache operates the block with a 65% stake, while Kuwait’s Kufpec owns the remaining 35%.

The company said it planned to drill a total of 52 wells, including 32 exploration wells, in Australia this year.

It will sink four more on the Julimar-Brunello trend on the North-West Shelf and will start an eight-well exploration well on the Gippsland basin off the state of Victoria early next month.

Apache also said it had flowed 41.6 million cubic feet of natural gas during testing of its Hydra-1X well in Egypt’s Western Desert. The well struck 178 feet of net pay in the Jurassic Lower Safa formation, on Apache’s 100%-owned Shushan C concession.

Apache plans to drill a further 282 wells in Egypt in 2008, including 40 exploration wells targeting Jurassic formation near its Hydra, Qasr and Jade discoveries.


Monday, 28 January, 2008, 05:40 GMT  | last updated: Monday, 28 January, 2008, 08:31 GMT

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