In a statement this morning, the company said the Kenya-11 and Kenya-10 wells, both in PL 228, were the sixth and seventh wells in the current 10-well program to provide gas to meet the contractual obligations of the Incitec Pivot Development contract.

Kenya-11 was designed to access both the Juandah and Taroom coal measures for immediate production, while the Kenya-10 was just targeting the Juandah.

Interests in PL 228 are operator QGC (59.375%) and Origin Energy (40.625%).

Meanwhile, QGC is about to start completing the Berwyndale South-54 well in PL 201 to provide additional deliverability into contracts including the expanded Braemar Power Project.

In addition, permeability testing is about to start on its Ridgewood-2 well in ATP 621P to evaluate the CSM potential of the Juandah and Taroom coal measures at this location.

Under its growth acceleration strategy, QGC aims to increase proven and probable reserves to 1000 petajoules.