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Bengal Energy Touts Potential Cooper Basin Discovery

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Bengal Energy Touts Potential Cooper Basin Discovery

Bengal Energy has reported that the first exploration well in the Company's Tookoonooka drilling campaign, Caracal-1, has been cased pending perforation and testing to confirm the prospectivity of this well as a future oil producer. 

Bengal operates and is the 100% working interest owner of the 654,335 acre permit Authority to Prospect 732P, located in the Cooper Basin, Queensland, Australia, on which the Caracal-1 well is located. The Caracal-1 well encountered a developed sandstone at the Cretaceous Wyandra level.

An 18 metre core was cut over the Wyandra section with preliminary petrophysical analysis indicating a total of 9.2 metres of porous sandstone with an average of 18% porosity. The Company advises that the core, the samples and the subsequently taken sidewall cores all have…

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