Ann: Hydrocarbon gas recovered & evaluation program forward plan, page-1330

Below is a reply from SM.
Hi David,

I thought we were pretty clear in the announcement that we had recovered a water sample from the Pebbly Arkose consisting of formation water and hydrocarbon gas.

Generally speaking there is always some filtrate in a water sample as it is hard to clean it up 100% formation water as it is a tradeoff between sampling time vs contamination, so you generally watch the resistivity change until it stabilises which shows you relative clean up to formation water. We did dope the drilling mud with a tracer (sodium thiocyanate) which will give us a contamination % based on the delta between the mud filtrate samples we take post drilling and the what is measured in the sample we captured. We have gas, formation water and some filtrate, but the sample will go off to the lab to get measured to provide us with a concentration of the tracer and then we can back out the contamination to give us a formation water resistivity to help calibrate our saturation calculation.