Strike Energy's Davenport-1 Unconventional Well Finds Thick Coal Seams

Strike Energy’s Davenport-1 unconventional well has reached a total depth of 2,102 metres and that wireline logging and sidewall coring has been completed.

Preliminary log data indicated Davenport-1 had intersected thick shales and coals in the Toolachee Formation as well as the Roseneath, Epsilon and Murteree formations.

Over 110 metres of net coal was encountered including one seam with over 45 metres of net coal and two further seams with net coal thickness above 20 metres.  Elevated gas shows were recorded across the target formations. Strike said a sidetrack well is currently being drilled to cut cores in the Patchawarra Formation.

Davenport-1 is the first well drilled in the centre of the Milpera Trough in PEL 94. It is aimed at demonstrating that the  thick, hydrocarbon-rich Permian-aged coal and shale formations in the centre of Cooper Basin extend into the southern Cooper Basin.