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Senex Energy Limited has commenced hydraulic fracture stimulation at the Sasanof-1 unconventional gas exploration well in the southern Cooper Basin permit PEL 516. Perforation of the first zone is underway, and the injection test will commence this afternoon. Senex will perform a multi zone stimulation...
Pakistan has tight gas reserves of approximately 24 TCF, and initially 100-150 MMCFD would be added depending on the success rate, Business Recorder reported. Council of Common Interest (CCI) approved Tight Gas (Exploration & Production) Policy, 2011 that offers 40 percent higher price than the...
Algeria is considering offering incentives for the exploration of unconventional hydrocarbons under a current proposal, Dow Jones reported citing a government official. Ali Hached, an adviser to Algeria's oil minister Youcef Yousfi, said focus will be on tight gas and shale gas. He said the incentives...
Senex Energy has said that presence of gas during drilling and coring of the Sasanof-1 exploration well in South Australian permit PEL 516 indicate southern Cooper Basin could host a world-class unconventional gas resource. Sasanof-1 exhibits many of the attributes typically associated...
Australia based Transerv Energy is planning to embark on an extensive drilling program across its prospective Canadian acreage, targeting unconventional and conventional oil and gas prospects. The drilling campaign planned for the second half of 2012. During the past year, the company has built a land...
This is the year for gas, especially shale and other unconventional gas sources, and the excitement surrounding it has had a positive impact on companies with such assets in onshore Western Australia. Western Australia has three primary petroleum regions, the Canning, Carnarvon and Perth basins.
Oilex, in an update of its Cambay-76H horizontal well, has said that milling and clean out of fracture stimulation stages 8, 7, 6 and 5 have been successfully completed. As a result, four of the eight fracture stimulation stages have now been fully opened and one partially opened. Once milling...
Royal Dutch Shell Plc. and PetroChina, a subsidiary of China National Petroleum Corp. (CNPC), have signed China’s first contract for the exploration, development, and production of shale gas. The production sharing agreement (PSA) covers shale gas resources in the Fushun-Yongchuan block in the...
Transerv Energy in a statement on its website said that its Warro tight gas field in the Perth Basin, Western Australia could hold multi trillion cubic feet of gas and potentially flow at high rates. The Warro-4 well succeeded in confirming the existence of a substantial gas column and generated a gas ...
A RECENT decision by the West Australian Environment Minister to allow small-scale hydraulic fracturing in the Perth Basin without the need for environmental assessments could be a sign of things to come for unconventional gas resources, which some have tipped as the next energy frontier for the boom state.