I've mentioned the Warro gas field on the board a few times....it's Australias first tight gas play. It's been in the works for a few years now, but now that they have actually drilled the first well, things are moving along quite rapidly. I think it's interesting to keep an eye on them to give us an idea of how long things take (in a less hostile environment that is)....notice how they will be flow testing for 2 months.


5 February, 2009

JOINT VENTURE STARTS DRILLING OF WA’S FIRST TIGHT GAS FIELD
Latent Managing Director Stephen Keenihan said drilling of the well would take about 35 days to reach its total depth of 4,375metres.
“Following the drilling, a fracture stimulation program on the target gas zones to establish flow rates will be completed 35-40 days after this,” Mr Keenihan said.

Wednesday, 1 April 2009

FRACTURE stimulation work has started on the gas-bearing sands intersected by the Warro joint venture’s Warro-3 appraisal well in the Perth Basin.
Warro-3 was drilled to a total depth of 4280m, and wireline logs indicated it had intersected a potential 280m net gas pay zone that had better porosity and gas saturation than expected.

Wednesday, 22 April 2009

PARTNERS in the Warro gas project will soon discover if their efforts to coax production out of the tight gas field have been successful with the completion of the full fracture stimulation program on the Warro-3 well.

Minority partner Transerv said the frac program had achieved seven fracture stimulation stages over the potential 280m net pay zone and injected more than 380 tonnes of proppant into the targeted gas sand zones. Coiled tubing will now be used to drill out the temporary bridge plugs set between each stage and to clean out the well bore in preparation for the extended flow testing of the well, to start next week. The flow test will be carried out for about 60 days with information on reservoir and gas characteristics gathered for further analysis.