AWE完成Waitsia項目首批天然氣出售

AWE Limited (ASX: AWE) today announced that commercial gas sales from Stage 1A of the Waitsia gas project have commenced and that the development was delivered on time and within the approved budget of $18 million ($9 million net to AWE).

The Waitsia gas project (AWE 50% interest) is Operated by AWE and located in production licence L1/L2 in the onshore Perth Basin, Western Australia, approximately 367km north of Perth and 16.5km east-southeast of Dongara. Stage 1A comprised the installation of new infrastructure to connect the Waitsia-1 and Senecio-3 gas wells to the upgraded Xyris Production Facility (XPF).

The XPF has been successfully commissioned and production capacity of 10 TJ/d has been achieved. Gas is being delivered to the Parmelia pipeline with Alinta Energy taking up to a Maximum Daily Quantity of 9.6 TJ/day under a 2.5 year Take or Pay gas sales agreement.

AWE is now focused on moving towards Stage 2, a full field development phase that would increase production capacity up to 100 TJ/d. The development concept selection process for Waitsia Stage 2 has begun and two new appraisal/production wells are planned to be drilled in calendar year 2017.