Queensland based coal seam gas company Blue Energy (ASX:BUL) announced that it has completed underbalanced air drilling operations on the Monslatt 6P and 7 wells with Titeline Energy Pty Ltd Rig 2.
Blue has also contracted the Dominion Drilling Rig 2 to drill the Monslatt 8H lateral well, which has a surface location approximately 700 metres to the south east of the Monslatt 7 well.
The Monslatt 8H well is designed to intersect the P Seam at a depth of 500 metres, then remain in seam and intersect the Monslatt 7 well bore, which will then be completed as a pilot production test well.
Operations on the Monslatt 8H well are expected to commence this weekend, and it is expected to take 3 weeks to drill the lateral and intersect the Monslatt 7 well bore.
Blue has previously announced the Monslatt 6P well flowed gas to the surface at the modest rate of 15,000 standard cubic feet per day from the P Seam, and the P Seam at Monlslatt 7 flowed gas to surface at 7,000 standard cubic feet per day, on a short term flow test.