Joint venture partner PetroFrontier revealed the OzDelta-1 well had been perforated at 737.5 and 736 metres within the Lower Arthur Creek hot shale formation but the subsequent hydraulic stimulation of the well failed to produce a measurable volume of hydrocarbons.
It added that the water recovered from OzDelta-1 was of low salinity, suggesting it to be primarily completion fluid pumped into the well.
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