METGASCO has announced that it begun drilling on its coal seam gas (CSG) exploration well Riflebird-E15 on 14 June 2009.
The company expects the well to take approximately one week to complete and the rig is currently drilling ahead.
Riflebird-E15 is a vertical well designed to evaluate the production performance of the Walloon coal measures at this location.
Metgasco says that this well is planned to be the vertical offtake well for a future horizontal pilot production well to be drilled later in this calendar year. It will be drilled to a proposed total depth of 750 meters.
The operation follows the company’s recent success in the 25% owned Wyan-E1 coal seam gas in PEL 13, approximately 28km south west of the township of Casino. A continuous production test demonstrated gas flows of approximately 120,000 standard cubic feet per day (“scfd”) through a 24/64” choke.
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