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Drillsearch New Birkhead Oil Discovery

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Drillsearch Energy Limited (ASX: DLS) is pleased to advise that a new Birkhead Oil Discovery has been made at the Bauer-5 appraisal/development well location in PEL 91.
Bauer-5 encountered a 5 metre net oil pay column in good quality Birkhead Formation in stratigraphicly trapped sands. The interval was drill stem tested, with 48.3° API oil coming to surface after 28 minutes at a rate of approximately 1,160 barrels per day with no water production.

As was indicated in the 12 July 2012 ASX announcement, the Birkhead Formation was a secondary target of the appraisal/development drilling program to test Birkhead oil shows seen in the Bauer-1 discovery well.
Due to the stratigraphic nature of Birkhead accumulations, it will be difficult to estimate the additional mean recoverable barrels from…

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