Besides Aurora, Perth-based juniors Sun Resources and Victoria Petroleum also hold one-eighth of West Flour Bluff with private US interests, including the operator, holding the remaining 62.5%.
The three Australian oil and gas players also each hold one-sixth shares in East Flour Bluff. The remaining half of the project is owned by private US interests, including the operator.
Following fracture stimulation BG Webb-1 was brought back online and was logged flowing gas at more than two million cubic feet a day with about 12 barrels of condensate a day and 144 barrels of water-based fracture liquids.
Production started from the well on June 24 and continued until the temporary halt was called on July 26 to carry out the fracture stimulation.
Meanwhile, operations to complete the EFB D-24 well, in the East Flour Bluff Gas Field, for commercial production are continuing.
First sand to be completed is between 3329 metres and 3333 metres.
Cement bond logs showed almost no cement behind casing below that sand so remedial cementing to prevent water from deeper formations entering the well through perforations for gas production is in progress.
The project’s third well EFB E-10, also in the East Flour Bluff Gas Field, is back on track despite a few days delay due to Hurricane Emily, with drilling hitting the programmed depth of 2205 metres.
Gas shows during drilling were encountered in both target sands but the full story will not be known until wire-line logs have been evaluated.
Aurora once enjoyed a top hat and tuxedo past as menswear firm Tony Barlow Australia but relinquished that name in April to choose one more in keeping with its Texan adventures.
Shortly after officially assuming its Aurora moniker the company undertook a 12.5 million share placement at 32c to raise $4 million. It relisted on the Australian Stock Exchange on April 28.
Some of the new funds were used to increase its stake in the East Flour Bluff project from 12.5% to its current 16.7%.
Flour Bluff is an old South Texas giant gas field that has produced about one trillion cubic feet of gas with associated condensate since it was discovered in 1934. Production has been predominantly from shallow reservoirs between 1980 metres and 2600 metres that are largely depleted.
The project aims to develop two sets of known but virtually undeveloped deeper reservoirs between 2750 metres and 3600 metres.
Flour Bluff is the only South Texas giant field that has not been deepened and redeveloped in this way.
The major reserve potential is about 104 billion cubic feet of gas in Flour Bluff and 67 billion cubic feet of gas in the East Flour Bluff field.
