Norwich Park
The Norwich Park block has an area of 874 km2 with adjacent tenements operated by BG Group, Arrow Energy and Pure Energy (now BG Group).
The Norwich Park block is on trend with Arrow’s Moranbah South Walker and Carborough CSG projects, which have produced gas from the Moranbah, Rangal and Fort Cooper Coal Measures. Bow plans to start up to a seven well exploration and appraisal drilling program in the Norwich Park block following the completion of the Comet Block drilling program. The targets are multiple coal measures including Moranbah, Rangal and Fort Cooper Coal Measures with the initial objective of increasing Bow’s current 3P reserves.
The Bowen Basin is now recognised as having huge CSG resources with multiple coal measure targets and low associated water flow rates and is located in close proximity to planned LNG export facilities in Gladstone.
Recent potential commercial gas flow rates in excess of 1 mmcfd have been reported by other Bowen Basin operators in areas adjacent to and on trend with our Bowen Basin CSG projects have been achieved by multilateral drilling methods or hydro-fraccing the coals. These excellent flow rates were from coals with permeabilities previously thought to be too low for commercial gas production.