The primary objective of the Hovea-3 well is to appraise the oil pool in the Dongara Sandstone reservoir discovered by the Hovea-1 well.
The well has also been designed to allow for it to be deepened to intersect the High Cliff gas zone discovered in Hovea-2 in a down dip location.
It is being drilled from a surface location adjacent to the Hovea-1 well as a new deviated well to a bottom hole location some 310 metres northeast of the original well location and is predicted to intersect the oil column significantly updip from the oil/water contact in Hovea-1.
