ExxonMobil announces Jansz-3 production test results
Posted: 17 July 2003
Exxon Mobil Corporation announced today its subsidiary, Mobil Exploration
and Producing Australia Pty Ltd, confirmed a production test on
the Jansz-3 well, an appraisal to the 2000 Jansz discovery off the
Northwest Coast of Western Australia, has flowed at a maximum gas
rate of more than 72 million cubic feet per day (MCFD).
In March, ExxonMobil announced that exploratory drilling on the
Jansz field indicated the presence of a world-class gas resource.
Based on these early results, it is estimated that the Jansz field,
in permit WA-18-R and its extension into the adjacent WA-267-P block,
could approach 20 trillion cubic feet (TCF) of recoverable sales
gas.
Appraisal drilling on the field in permit WA-18-R indicated a field
size in excess of 760 square miles with an interpreted 1,300 feet
gross gas column.
Located in the deepwater Carnarvon Basin, approximately 125 miles
off the coast of Karratha, the Jansz-3 well was drilled in water
depths of 4,355 feet to a total depth of approximately 9,425 feet
below sea level to further delineate the resource.
"ExxonMobil is encouraged by the results of the recent production
test," said Jon Thompson, president of ExxonMobil Exploration
Company. "The Jansz field represents around 40 percent of the
undeveloped, discovered gas resources in the deepwater Carnarvon
Basin."
ExxonMobil holds a 50 per cent equity interest, and is operator
of the WA-18-R permit in which the Jansz-3 well was drilled, and
a 25 per cent equity interest in the adjacent WA-267-P block.
ChevronTexaco holds the remaining 50 per cent equity interest in
WA-18-R, while the remaining equity in the adjacent WA-267-P block
is held by ChevronTexaco (50 per cent, operator), Shell (12.5 per
cent) and BP (12.5 per cent).
The WA-18-R Joint Venturers are conducting a joint study to assess
development options.
ExxonMobil has a leading position in nearly all of the primary
accessible exploration and production areas in the world, including
large operations in Australia such as those in Gippsland and North
West Shelf.
The company is actively exploring and producing in Australia.
ExxonMobil is one of Australia's largest producers of crude oil
and natural gas with operated production of 198,000 barrels of liquids
and 548 million cubic feet of gas per day in 2002. Gas production
facilities operated by ExxonMobil supply approximately 23 percent
of Australia's domestic demand.
Upstream capital and exploration expenditures invested by ExxonMobil
last year in Australia totaled approximately US$175 million. (BUSINESS
WIRE)
For more information see www.exxonmobil.com.
Posted by Richard Price,
Editor Pipeline Magazine
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