Senex Flows Gas from Cooper Basin Unconventional Well

Senex Energy has flowed gas from Paning-2 unconventional gas exploration well in northern Cooper Basin with a peak flows up to 90,000 standard cubic feet per day (scfd).

The company also completed two fracture stimulations in each of the Epsilon and Patchawarra formations and single 63,000 pound proppant fracture stimulation was completed in the Toolachee Coal.

Results indicate that the gas, free from water, was sourced from a regionally extensive 28 metre thick Toolachee coal, with an estimated 2.1 trillion cubic feet (Tcf) of gas in place across the 9,000 acre Paning structure, Senex said.

Paning-2 is the first well to test the unconventional gas potential of this part of the South Australian Cooper Basin and the second well, after the Santos operated Moomba-77, to flow gas from deep coals.