Carnarvon Petroleum Ltd was awarded exploration permit EP 497, located in the Peedamullah Shelf/Barrow Sub-basin, North Carnarvon Basin, on 16 November 2017. The permit has been awarded for a period of six years and will expire on, or be eligible for renewal by, 15 November 2023.  The permit lies between approximately 2 km and 25 km from the Western Australia coastline and has been awarded by the Department of Mines, Industry Regulation and Safety. Carnarvon filed the permit application as STP-EPA-0142 on 28 October 2016, covering 478 sq km. The application area has been awarded in full as EP 497. Work commitments have been assigned for the duration of the permitâs validity and does not include any exploration drilling. In the first two years, Carnarvon will focus on building a well and seismic database of the block through data collection, mapping and geotechnical work. The central area of the permit, within the Barrow Sub-basin, is covered by the Flinders 3D survey which was acquired by TGS in 2001. The survey extends north over the Cyrano, Chervil, Herald North and Pepper South oil discoveries which offer structural plays in the Upper Jurassic to Lower Cretaceous. The play extends to the Santa Cruz oil/gas discovery with EP 497 which was discovered in 1993. Santa Cruz 1 was drilled on vintage 2D seismic data and is not covered by the Flinders 3D seismic survey. Thus, the areal coverage of the structure is currently unknown. Low quality structure maps from the vintage data indicate that the well clipped a structure of around 50 sq km with the possibility of additional stratigraphic elements analogous to the Stag oil field. Two wells are located within the permit area: Bricklanding 1 and Dill 1. Bricklanding 1 was designed to test the low side fault closure against the Flinders Fault in 2006. The well was plugged and abandoned with minor gas shows in the Calypso Formation.  In the terms three to five discretionary programme, an offshore geochemical survey is planned followed by geotechnical studies. Should the survey prove up an area of accumulation, the sixth term will conclude with the acquisition of 100 sq km of new 3D seismic data. The total exploration programme over the six year validity period is expected to cost around AUD 7.9 million. Carnarvon has been awarded five exploration permits in the past 18 months, and is now operator of nine permits from the near shore Barrow Sub-basin to the Nancar Trough, Bonaparte Basin. Carnarvon is also continuing its joint venture with Quadrant Energy in the Roebuck Basin which includes the Phoenix South and Roc discoveries and Dorado Prospect. EP 497, which covers an area of 478 sq km, was awarded on 16 November 2017.Â  Carnarvon Petroleum Ltd holds 100% interest and operatorship of the permit.
Australia (Pine Creek Orogen) (It's a petroleum rights. Please summarize by yourself). In IHS database: EP(A) 256 (a) op. by NT GAS AUS (100.0%) to be check.EP(A) 256 (c) op. by NT GAS AUS (100.0%) to be check.STP-EPA-0142 op. by OTHERS (100.0%) to be check.EP (A) 287 (a) op. by ARAFURA O (100.0%) to be check.EP(A) 256 (b) op. by NT GAS AUS (100.0%) to be check.EP (A) 287 (c) op. by ARAFURA O (100.0%) to be check.EP (A) 287 (b) op. by ARAFURA O (100.0%) to be check.