From CTP website.There are numerous other untested leads not...

From CTP website.

There are numerous other untested leads not evaluated yet. Both Ooraminna and Waterhouse prospects in the Amadeus have flowed gas to surface but remain un-evaluated; both prospects are over 300 square kilometres in upside closure.

Since 1998, when oil traded at $12/bbl, the Company has undertaken a highly focused strategy to secure acreage within the areas it considers to be the most prospective for oil and gas within central Australia and will seek to increase its presence in this focus area. The Company will also pursue the acquisition of a reserve based asset or assets internal or external to this area if such opportunities can provide early monetisation to aid in funding the exploration and development of the Company's current interests.

Early exploration in the 1960s by such groups as the French Petroleum Company, a wholly owned subsidiary of Total, Santos, Beach Petroleum and North Broken Hill produced some encouraging results. Indeed Magellan and others discovered the still producing Mereenie and Palm Valley oil and gas fields which at one time were Australia's biggest onshore oil and gas fields with over 140 MMbbls of oil equivalent in reserves.

Several factors conspired to thwart development of central Australia from the 1960s to the advent of Central Petroleum's current strategy. These factors included the remoteness of the region, the relatively unattractive economics of developing sales gas for transport by pipeline to the east coast domestic markets, the lack of rail transport links direct to export markets and low oil prices rendering GTL economics unattractive. With the advent of prevailing higher oil prices and the commissioning of a rail link to direct to port facilities in Darwin, the area is now ripe for development.


http://www.centralpetroleum.com.au/