Salamander Announces Bedug-1 As Gas Discovery

Salamander Energy has announced that the Bedug-1 exploration well in the Bontang PSC, East Kalimantan, Indonesia has been concluded as a gas discovery.

Completion of the Bedug-1 well concludes the current phase of Salamander’s multi-well programme in the North Kutei basin. This campaign has yielded the South Kecapi oil and gas discovery; the Bedug gas discovery; and wet gas at North Kendang.

Work is on-going to evaluate the commercial potential of the discoveries made to date, and Salamander intends to re-drill the North Kendang well. Meanwhile, new well data is to be integrated into a technical assessment of the Bontang and Southeast Sangatta PSCs, which both retain a significant undrilled inventory of prospects, Salamander said.