Omega Oil and Gas has announced the successful completion of a diagnostic fracture injection test (DFIT) at its Canyon-1H horizontal appraisal well.

Final preparations are now underway for the Canyon-1H fracture stimulation and flowback program, expected to begin around the end of February.

The company stands alongside operators including Shell and Elixir in conducting gas exploration and appraisal campaigns within the Taroom Trough, located in the southern Bowen Basin.

Omega said the DFIT results confirmed high overpressure of 0.79 psi/ft and favourable reservoir properties within the target Canyon sandstone reservoir.

“The successful execution of the DFIT program in the Canyon-1H horizontal well has provided an important, high-quality data set that provides enhanced confidence of obtaining a strong result from the upcoming fracture stimulation and flowback program,” Omega Oil and Gas chief executive officer and managing director Trevor Brown said.

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“The DFIT data analysis indicates higher reservoir pressure and lower geomechanical stress than previously modelled, and reservoir permeability in line with expectations.

“High overpressure is a key success factor in analogous, international basin-centred gas plays.

“These important results confirm favourable reservoir properties interpreted in the Canyon-1 vertical well and observed while drilling the horizontal section through the Canyon sandstone in Canyon-1H.”

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