Empire Close to Starting Red Gully Gas Plant

Empire Oil and Gas has begun pre-commissioning activities for its Red Gully Gas and Condensate Processing Facility near Gingin, Western Australia, as construction activities end, Proactive Investors Australia has reported.

The commissioning of the Facility is scheduled for May with the first gas due in late May 2013.

The Facility will produce gas and condensate from the Red Gully-1 and Gingin West-1 wells.  Commissioning and early production will be carried out to provide the optimal production rates to maximise condensate yields from the two wells.

The current discovery wells are very high in condensate, producing between 50 to 80 barrels of condensate (light crude oil) per 1 million cubic feet of gas.
    
Gingin West-1 flowed 7.5 million cubic feet (MMcf) of gas and 375 barrels of condensate per day during testing while Red Gully-1 flowed 12MMcf of gas and 832 barrels of condensate during testing.