RE: Who has Baron joined with?11 Apr 2024 09:04
From the directors talk interview
Q2: Now, the company’s strategic focus is obviously on the Chuditch gas project offshore Timor-Leste and the planned drill-in of the appraisal well in Q4 this year. Could you just give us a brief overview of the Chuditch Project, the stage it’s reached now and your partnership with the Timor-Leste state oil and gas company?
A2: So, Chuditch is a large gas field, offshore in the Timor Sea, in Timor-Leste waters, that’s north of Australia and south of the island of Timor, in relatively shallow water. That’s an area with a lot of gas within it, that is now moving forward to development, and that area will increasingly become a key area of focus in Asia Pacific as a gas production centre.
Chuditch itself was discovered by Shell about 25 years ago in, as I say, relatively shallow waters. They discovered gas at a time when there were really no markets for gas in this part of the world, no LNG infrastructure, no pipeline infrastructure, and really with data that made it very difficult to image the field. So, they thought they found something interesting, about 700 billion cubic feet of gas, but were unable to do anything with it.
Roll the clock forward, we’ve now worked the asset considerably, obviously the gas markets in this part of the world have evolved but also technologies have evolved, and so we’ve been able to really throw the book technically at the challenge of imaging the field in the subsurface in which we have successfully done. So, we now can for the first time really image the structure and that leads us to a view of the resource potential for the discovery of about 1.2 trillion cubic feet of gas so that’d be more than 50% increase on the resource that Shell thought that they had when they left. We also see a lot of upside in undrilled features immediately adjacent to the Chuditch field so really a pretty material asset.