Chevron Corp. has drilled the Satyr gas discovery on the Exmouth Plateau area of the Carnarvon basin, the company's 13th offshore gas find in Australia since mid-2009.
The Satyr-3 well encountered 243 ft of net gas pay. It went to 13,369 ft in 3,688 ft of water 113 miles north of Exmouth, Western Australia, on the WA-374-P permit.
Chevron's Australian subsidiary is operator of the permit with 50% interest, and units of ExxonMobil Corp. and Royal Dutch Shell PLC each hold 25%.
Alan Petzet is Chief Editor-Exploration of Oil & Gas Journal in Houston. He is editor of the Weekly E&D Newsletter, emailed to OGJ subscribers, and a regular contributor to the OGJ Online subscriber website.
Petzet joined OGJ in 1981 after 13 years in the Tulsa World business-oil department. He was named OGJ Exploration Editor in 1990. A native of Tulsa, he has a BA in journalism from the University of Tulsa.
