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Icon Energy to Drill Five Australian Shale Wells

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Icon Energy today announced that it had signed a drilling contract with Ensign International Energy Services for the Ensign Rig 960.

The Ensign Rig 960 will drill two wells, Eolus1 and Windom1 in ATP626P in Queensland and the first well is expected to spud in early May 2012.

With the addition of the two wells in ATP626P this brings the total number of wells to be drilled over the next few months to five. This is the first time in our history that Icon Energy has been involved in such a concentrated exploration program across three tenements in two states, Queensland and Victoria”, the company’s Managing Director Ray James stated.

The first drilling operations will be conducted in ATP626P, in which Goondi Energy (a wholly owned subsidiary of Stanwell Corporation) has farmed into and these…

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