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EMERALD RESOURCES NL Capital/Financing Update 2007
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Capital/Financing Update
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Level 2, 16 Altona Street West Perth WA 6005
Ph: 08 9482 0500 Fax: 08 9482 0505 Email: [email protected] www.emeraldoilandgas.com
20 September 2007
Centralised Company Announcements Platform Australian Stock Exchange 10th floor, 20 Bond Street Sydney NSW 2000
VALENTINE 1 EXPLORATION WELL UPDATE
Please find attached a report on the progress of drilling of the Valentine-1 exploration well at EP104/R1 in the Canning Basin, Western Australia.
For more information please contact:
Emerald Oil & Gas NL
Tel: +618 9482 0510 www.emeraldoilandgas.com [email protected]
JOHN HANNAFORD Executive Director - Finance [email protected]
BOB BERVEN Executive Director - Technical [email protected]
VALENTINE-1 DRILLING REPORT
CANNING BASIN, WESTERN AUSTRALIA
| Date: | 20 September 2007 | |
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| Permit: | R 1 | |
| Well Location: | 17° 08' 23.46"S Lat : |
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| 123° 42' 32.40"E Long: |
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| Directional offset to target: | 0 metres | |
| Elevation: | Ground Level is 12.4mAMSL Rotary Table is 18.1mAMSL |
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| Prognosed Depths (measured KB): |
Top primary objective | Total depth |
| 3,222 metres | 3,407 metres | |
| Prognosed drilling time: | 25 days | |
| Spud Date: | 1230 hrs, WST 12 August 2007 | |
| Present Depth: | 3,241mMD | |
| Time of Reporting: | 0600 hrs, WST 20 September 2007 | |
| Operations Since Last Report: |
Directionally drilled to 3241m. Changed the drill bit and reconfigured the directional assembly and now preparing to recommence drilling ahead |
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| Current Operations: | Drilling Ahead | |
| Hydrocarbon indications: | None | |
| Comment: | Lithologies presently being drilled are predominantly tight limestones and minor claystones of probable Devonian age with minor mud gas shows observed. The target Virgin Hills Formation clastic section has yet to be intersected. Correlation of the new Valentine 1 stratigraphy with Puratte 1; the most equivalent well (50 kms away); indicates that the top of the Virgin Hills clastic objective is now prognosed slightly deeper at approximately 3315m MD. This change in prognosed depth is not structurally significant and reflects the uncertainty of prediction of stratigraphy and depths in an underexplored basin. |
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| Participants in the well (post earning): |
Empire Oil and Gas NL - 14.8% ARC Energy Limited - 38.95% (Operator) Emerald Oil & Gas NL - 12.75% Pancontinental Oil & Gas NL - 10.0% Phoenix Resources PLC - 10.0% First Australian Resources Limited - 8.0% Indigo Oil Pty Ltd - 5.5% |
About Emerald Oil & Gas NL
Emerald Oil & Gas NL (ASX: EMR; EMRO) was listed on the ASX in June 2006, raising \$4 million. Emerald is an oil and gas exploration and production company with project interests in North Dakota and Texas in the USA and in the Canning Basin of Western Australia. Emerald's focus is on conventional reservoir targets for oil and gas prospects and its primary objective is to achieve near term production and cashflow to build shareholder value and provide funds to fuel further growth. Emerald's strategy is to take modest but meaningful positions in low risk exploration projects that can be swiftly brought into production.
Information in this announcement pertaining to exploration potential was compiled by Robert Berven, Emerald Oil & Gas NL's Technical Director who is a Member of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy and the American Association of Petroleum Geologists CPG # 2498.
Statements regarding Emerald's plans with respect to its petroleum properties are forwardlooking statements. There can be no assurance that Emerald's plans for development of its petroleum properties will proceed as currently expected. There can be no assurance that Emerald will be able to confirm the presence of additional petroleum deposits, that any discovery will prove to be economic or that an oil or gas field will successfully be developed on any of Emerald's petroleum properties.