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Warro partners hopeful of significant gas flows

Monday, 15 June 2009

PARTNERS in the Warro gas project in the Perth Basin are hoping an isolation bridge plug
will stop the significant inflows of water in the Warro3
well and result in a material
increase in gas flows.
Minority partner Transerv Energy said production logging tests on the well had been
completed and showed about 60% of the total gas production was from the uppermost
zone (zone 6), 27% from the middle zones (zones 3,4.1,4.2 and 5), and about 13% from
the lower zones (zones 1 and 2).
Importantly, the company said all the water was evaluated as being from zones 1 and 2
and therefore a retrievable isolation plug set at the top of zone 2 should seal off the
formation water.
“If the isolation bridge plug is successful in eliminating the significant inflows of water to
the well, a material increase is expected in the gas flow rate, more than offsetting the lost of modest gas
production from zones 1 and 2.”
Testing of Warro2
began on May 2 and is expected to take up to 60 days.
The constant presence of fluids in the well bore has restricted gas from reaching its optimal flow rate, though the
increased gas flow that followed immediately after the well’s shutin
period showed it was capable of greater rates
of production.
Should the well be successful, which appears to be increasingly likely, the joint venture between Alcoa, Latent
Petroleum and Transerv could drill more than 200 wells on the field to produce an average of 100150
million cubic
feet of gas per day.
The gas will be piped to the gasprocessing
plant from various well pad groupings before being delivered to the
Dampier to Bunbury and Parmelia pipelines.
Alcoa is funding the evaluation program in return for a 65% interest in the project while unlisted private company
Latent holds a 25% stake.
Transerv owns the remaining 10%.


Taken from the Transev website