PERTH (miningweekly.com) – ASX-listed Strike Energy has been granted a production licence by the Department of Mines, Industry Regulation and Safety over its South Erregulla gas field, in Western Australia.
South Erregulla is one of the four gas fields that is targeted for commercial production by 2025, along with Walyering, West Erregulla and Ocean Hill.
Strike's strategy is aimed at exploiting the company’s existing 371 PJ of net 2P reserves proven up across the Greater Erregulla and Walyering fields, convert Strike’s existing 610 PJe of net 2C contingent resources to reserves and test 275 PJe of new net 2U prospective resources to delineate further gas resource upside.
Strike said on Wednesday that the issue of a production licence at South Erregulla prior to the field’s final investment decision would allow the company to control and forecast the completion and startup for the Phase 1 development with a higher degree of accuracy.
With the granted production licence, Strike is now able to submit the facility safety case and environment plan required to start construction of the proposed Phase 1 development, post an investment decision.