RE: Talitha7 Feb 2022 14:51
historic but very relevant I believe,
Dr Stephen Staley was very positive at the time, think JVs pushed us away from a conventional well on ALPHA.
https://clients3.weblink.com.au/pdf/88E/01819708.pdf
Stephen Staley:
"Is this working? Can you hear me? It is working. Very good. I'm just going to go back a few slides, folks, to that one. I'm going to talk about the conventional. I'm the one who's got a tie on, so that's what you'd expect, I suppose. We're down here. Obviously, we've seen this slide before. Dave mentioned the green blobs here. Now, back in 2013, the US Geological Survey estimated that there was about 2.1 billion barrels to come out of what's called Brookian or the Brookian system, which is the conventional here. It extends into our acreage. Since then in those very few years with these three discoveries. Caelus there in the northwest, Armstrong and Repsol here, and ConocoPhillips earlier this year, they've already almost doubled that estimate. There's an awful lot of potential here. They haven't, by any means, found everything there is to find.
Way down here, the system extends down here. Tarm/Meltwater here. It's an existing field. That's one of our analogs for what we've got out here and across our acreage in terms of potential conventional play. Very exciting on the conventional side as well. I'll take it forward to where we were before. This now is a map of the acreage. The green blobs are, and you've probably seen these, they've been released. These are the conventional leads that we found. We can't call them prospects yet. We have more work to do on them before we can call them prospects. Very exciting.
You saw Alpha. If you came to the last one of these, we show you a little graphic of Alpha. We've moved further west. This is based on the 2D seismic that we acquired early last year, and processed and interpreted and we continued to work on. As you can probably see from this, we've got stacked plays. Here, we've got India/Juliet, et cetera. Over in the west, picked out just Bravo. We've also got Charlie. Charlie and Bravo overlap. Each of those is quite significant. We got well control over in the west here with Malbec, Smilodon, and Wolfbutton wells.
What do we think we've got? In broad terms, we've done an initial pass on this. Net to us, net to 88, probably about 1.14 billion, about one-and-a-half altogether billion barrels. Very significant. It's not quite as big as the unconventional, but by anybody's terms, that's a very large number to have sitting in your acreage. Now, this requires more work. We need to build in to our analysis, the data from the wells that we've got already over in the west there. We'll be working up what's the right way to approach this, where do we want to drill this.
If we have a look at this list here, then from east to west and we group them, you can see the size of what we've got. Alpha, we estimate in total about 118 million barrels. Then, through the centre, so pretty big on
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