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L&M Energy in its latest update on Kaitangata coal seam gas appraisal program said that it has intersected less than 4 metres of coal seams at its Washpool-1 coal seam gas well in New Zealand. The company said this would be confirmed during wireline testing. The previous Taratu-1 well intersected...
Solid Energy has announced the commencement of its $22 million Underground Coal Gasification Pilot Plant near Huntly in the Waikato, New Zealand. The plant is now producing synthetic gas from coal.
The company believes it is the first in the world to access energy from a single coal field using...
In an update regarding its Kaitangata CSG appraisal programme within PEP 38219, located 60km south of Dunedin, L&M Energy has said that its Taratu-1 well is at a current depth of 323m and is drilling towards an expected total depth of approximately 350m.
The well has intersected approximately 23m...
New Zealand Energy Corp. has achieved target depth and cased its Copper Moki-3 well in the Taranaki Basin of New Zealand's North Island.
Copper Moki-3 was drilled through the Urenui and Mt. Messenger formations to the deeper Moki formation, with a measured depth of 3,167 metres and...
L&M Energy has spudded the second of five coal seam gas wells that it is drilling on the northern portion of PEP 38219, New Zealand. The well, Taratu-1 is located about 3 kilometres west of the first well, Wangaloa-2, and will be drilled to a total depth of about 350 metres, Proactive Investor...
New Zealand Energy Corp. has initiated an extended production test of its Copper Moki-2 (CM-2) well and commenced drilling Copper Moki-3 (CM-3), its third well in the Taranaki Basin of New Zealand's North Island.
The company has also entered into a farm-in agreement with L&M...
New Zealand government is likely to offer a 2739 square kilometre block of land in Hamilton for commercial gas exploration.
The block covers large parts of the Waikato and Waipa districts . The Waikato block could prove to hold attractive reserves of coal seam gas as the region is rich in coal.
Coal...
L&M Energy has said it will recommence drilling later this week within its Kaitangata permit (PEP 38219), located 60km south of Dunedin.
Wangaloa-2, the fifth well in the programme will be drilled to a target depth of approximately 350m. The well is set to test the coal seam gas potential from five...
New Zealand’s L&M Energy Friday provided fourth quarter updates on its unconventional gas activities and said that its Ohai coal seam gas production testing programme which commenced during the quarter is now complete and the well will be re-equipped and brought back onto production.
The company...
The oil and gas industry will be squirming over recent headlines shouting that the North Island’s East Coast is set to become the “Texas of the south”. Tag Oil, a Canadian exploration company with interests in Taranaki and the East Coast, has been talking up its New Zealand prospects...