Blue Star Helium Ltd (ASX:BNL, OTC:BSNLF) has completed drilling its second exploratory water well at Galactica/Pegasus helium prospect in Las Animas County in Colorado.
The exploration water well, JXSN#2, forms part of the company’s key helium exploration activities, with samples of gas encountered sent to the laboratory for analysis.
Looking ahead, Blue Star is set to begin drilling the third exploratory water well (JXSN#3) tomorrow, with company personnel already on-site and evaluating data.
Exploratory water well program
Blue Star is focused on rapidly advancing further drill planning and permitting across its key prospects in 2022, including a mix of exploratory water wells and helium exploration wells.
The exploratory water wells will front-run helium exploration, appraisal and production drilling at the Pegasus/Galactica prospects, where Blue Star also has a further potential of 29 helium exploration well locations in its permitting pipeline.
“The continuation of our successful exploratory water well program this year reflects the large benefits that we are able to both deliver and receive from undertaking this combined ESG and geologic evaluation initiative,” Blue Star managing director and CEO Trent Spry said early last month.
Alongside the ESG water infrastructure benefits to the local community, the company can glean substantial data that contributes to Blue Star’s geologic evaluation and prospect advancement.
About Helium
Helium is a unique industrial gas that exhibits characteristics both of a bulk, commodity gas and high-value specialty gas and is considered a 'high tech' strategic element.
Due to its unique chemical and physical qualities, helium is a vital element in the manufacture of MRIs and semiconductors and is critical for fibre optic cable manufacturing, hard disc manufacture and cooling, space exploration, rocketry, lifting and high-level science.
There is no way of manufacturing helium artificially and most of the world’s reserves have been derived as a byproduct of the extraction of natural hydrocarbon gas.
About Blue Star
Blue Star Helium is an independent helium exploration and production company, headquartered in Australia, with operations and exploration in North America.
The company's strategy is to find and develop new supplies of low cost, high-grade helium in North America.