haha it's got people twitching that post it seems! I can only repeat what was told to me, he said should be this week. The main hold up was what
@Pottermore predicted, getting consensus amongst the energy resources and NWE geologists on the interpretation, which they did not come to terms with until the end of last week apparently. If I was to hazard a guess, it would have been either the depth of the slope for the Kingia sandstone as it extends east and/or whether the transects extending south from Mingenew and around the eastern side of lead E demonstrate a transfer fault.
The old WAPET field campaign data originally showed that the permian was not as steeply sloped in that area as the NWE maps suggest and that a transfer fault likely existed, but has not been shown by NWE in their maps yet. Gravity data for NED-1 region and to the east (southern half of Lockyer Deep fault block) indicated in that study that the resource is far more substantial than in the region of LD-1 an LD-2, but you won't know until you drill. I'd like to see the company scrap the LD-3 location in the environmental approvals document and do two more wells around NED-1 myself, I think that will give better monetization of the resource than the current plan but I'm on the outside of this.
