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Lakes spuds next Gippsland well

LAKES Oil has used the Century Rig-11 to start drilling the next well in its onshore Gippsland Ba...

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The Melbourne-based company said yesterday that it spudded Alberton-1 well in PEP 158 – a follow-up to core holes drilled in the 1980s to investigate the area’s coal potential.

Near the Alberton township, the coreholes encountered laminated clay stones similar to low-grade oil shales, Lakes said.

Alberton-1 will test those clay stones, as well as its primary target, the Strzelecki Formation.

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