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Operational Update Initial Results Aldinga East-1A
Operational Update Initial Results Aldinga East-1A

Brisbane, Nov 13, 2019 AEST (ABN Newswire) - State Gas Limited (googlechartASX:GAS) ("State Gas" or "the Company") refers to its previous announcements1 relating to the Aldinga East-1A well in the Reid's Dome Gas Project (PL 231).

Highlights:

- Up to 14m of net coal encountered in the Aldinga East-1A between 560m and 884m in the Reid's Dome Beds. Gas was observed bubbling from the coals in core samples. The best permeability occurs between 592m and 753m.

- A conventional gas pool has been discovered in approximately 9m of gas sands in the Cattle Creek Formation, confirmed via logging and permeability testing.

- An additional 9m of gas sands were encountered in the deeper Reid's Dome Beds between 732m and 802m.

- A total of 18m of gas sands intersected in Aldinga East-1A to 802m.

- Initial results are encouraging for the economics of the Reid's Dome Project and the Company's 2021 Gas-to-Market strategy.

Aldinga East-1A

Wireline logging and permeability testing of the well has now been completed and the initial results from the well have positive implications for the Company's 2021 Gas-to-Market strategy.

The Aldinga East-1A well was drilled to 884m (confirmed by logging). 86m of core samples were taken between the depths of 563m and 649m, containing ~4m of coal. Gas was noted bubbling from the coal core samples prior to their placement into the desorption canisters. The coal samples are currently undergoing desorption testing in the ALS laboratory with data from that analysis expected over the coming months.

Logging has identified between 10m and 14m of net coal in the well. More precise estimates of coal seams will become available following correlation of logging with core samples taken from the well, to be undertaken over the coming weeks. The best permeabilities in the well occur between 592m and 753m.

The logging and permeability testing has also established the discovery of a conventional gas pool located in approximately 9m of gas sand in the Cattle Creek Formation.

Aldinga East-1A was sited immediately adjacent to a well drilled in 1993 (Aldinga East-1) by previous explorers. That 1993 well intersected the top of the Cattle Creek Formation only and did not encounter significant gas shows or hydrocarbon fluorescence. The gas pool was discovered by State Gas in Aldinga East-1A approximately 60m deeper than the total depth of the adjacent 1993 well.

Within the Red's Dome Beds, deeper drilling in Aldinga East-1A encountered approximately 9m of gas sands between 732m and 802m.

A total of 18m of gas sands were intersected in the Aldinga East-1A well to a depth of 802m.

These initial results are encouraging for the economics of the Reid's Dome Project and further analysis is required to estimate the likely size and volume of the conventional gas pools.

Based on these positive results the Company has suspended the well to enable further testing in the coming weeks. It is planned to return to Aldinga East-1A with TDC Drilling Pty Ltd's Rig 4 and conduct drill stem tests of the new Cattle Creek gas pool and the gas sands in the Reid's Dome Beds, to obtain gas samples and indicative flow rates.

TDC's Rig 4 is currently rigging up for re-entry and completion of the Nyanda-4 well (drilled by State Gas in November 2018) and will more to Aldinga East-1A following completion of those activities.

Serocold-1

The latest discovery of gas in the Cattle Creek Formation has caused the Company to reassess its proposed well design for the planned Serocold-1, to consider whether an alternative design would better facilitate the testing of both the Cattle Creek conventional gas and the Reid's Dome Beds (both coal seam gas and conventional gas targets). State Gas is aiming to drill the planned Serocold-1 well during the remainder of 2019. In the meantime, State Gas has approved the release of Gas Field Services Rig 12 upon completion of the operations at Aldinga East-1A. It is planned to drill Serocold-1 using TDC Rig 4 currently located at Nyanda-4 within PL 231.

Target 2021 Gas-to-Market Strategy

State Gas Chairman, Mr Richard Cottee said he was excited about the initial findings from Aldinga East-1A, including both coal seam gas and conventional gas zones in the same well.

"Our Target 2021 Gas-to-Market strategy has been validated by the results received from Aldinga East-1A to date. The fortunate combination of both CSG and conventional gas will help underpin our early Gas-to-Market opportunity, and the longer-term economics of Reid's Dome. This well has proven that the gas bearing coal measures are extensive and is the source of gas in more than one conventional sand."

Mr Cottee said that the Reid's Dome Gas Project was shaping-up as a unique conventional gas and CSG province close to pipeline infrastructure, following decades of sporadic exploration activities since gas was first discovered at Reid's Dome in 1954 by American oil drillers.

"Since the discovery of conventional gas at Reid's Dome 65 years ago, a robust market for gas has emerged, facilitated by an east coast pipeline network and competing domestic and international customers."

"More recently, coal seam gas has been commercialised in eastern Australia, and State Gas is the first developer to have explored for CSG at Reid's Dome."

"Gas prices have reached international parity pricing in recent years as a result of a tightening in the east coast market, which shows no real signs of abating prior to our anticipated first delivery", Mr Cottee said.

"The success at Aldinga East-1A, along with the results from Nyanda-4 approximately 12 km south within PL 231 and the extensive seismic data processing completed this year, provide us even greater confidence in proving-up an extensive gas project at Reid's Dome, well-timed to help address the gas shortage in the east coast market."

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About State Gas Limited

State Gas Limited ASX:GASState Gas Limited (ASX:GAS) is a Queensland-based developer of the Reid's Dome gas field, originally discovered during drilling in 1955, located in the Bowen Basin in Central Queensland. State Gas is 100%-owner of the Reid's Dome Gas Project (PL-231) a CSG and conventional gas play, which is well-located 30 kilometres southwest of Rolleston, approximately 50 kilometres from the Queensland Gas Pipeline and interconnected east coast gas network.

Permian coal measures within the Reid's Dome Beds are extensive across the entire permit but the area had not been explored for coal seam gas prior to State Gas' ownership. In late 2018 State Gas drilled the first coal seam gas well in the region (Nyanda-4) into the Reid's Dome Beds and established the potential for a significant coal seam gas project in PL 231. The extension of the coal measures into the northern and central areas of the permit was confirmed in late 2019 by the Company's drilling of Aldinga East-1A (12 km north) and Serocold-1 (6 km to the north of Nyanda-4).

State Gas is also the 100% holder Authority to Prospect 2062 ("Rolleston-West"), a 1,414 km2 permit (eight times larger than PL 231) that is contiguous with the Reid's Dome Gas Project. Rolleston-West contains highly prospective targets for both coal seam gas (CSG) and known conventional gas within the permit area. It is not restricted by domestic gas reservation requirements.

The contiguous areas (Reid's Dome and Rolleston-West), under sole ownership by State Gas, enable integration of activities and a unified super-gasfield development, providing economies of scale, efficient operations, and optionality in marketing.

State Gas is implementing its strategic plan to bring gas to market from Reid's Dome and Rolleston-West to meet near term forecast shortfalls in the east coast domestic gas market. The strategy involves progressing a phased appraisal program in parallel with permitting for an export pipeline and development facilities to facilitate the fastest possible delivery of gas to market. State Gas' current focus has been to confirm the producibility of the gas through production testing of the wells.

 

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Contact

Lucy Snelling
Chief Executive Officer
Phone: 0439 608 241
e-mail: lucy@stategas.com

Richard Cottee
Executive Chairman
Phone: 0458 517 850
e-mail: richard@stategas.com



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