美国页岩领袖 Tamboran Resources Ltd. 合资企业报告称，其在澳大利亚北部 Beetaloo 盆地的 Shenandoah South 1H 井发现了约 300 英尺（90 m）深的 Mid Velkerri B 页岩，“有强烈的天然气显示”。

Tamboran董事总经理兼首席执行官乔尔·里德尔 (Joel Riddle) 表示，初步数据支持“我们的观点，即 Beetaloo 盆地更深的区域包含迄今为止 Beetaloo 中最厚、质量最高的 B 页岩。”

Tamboran 8 月 30 日报道称，该孔钻探深度为 10,800 英尺（3,300 m），发现了“迄今为止在 Beetaloo 子盆地沉积中心发现的 Mid Velkerri B 页岩最厚的部分”。

它补充说，孔隙度和含气饱和度“与马塞勒斯页岩一致”。

Shenandoah 井和偏置井（mungee 2H 和 Beetaloo W1）的初步迹象表明，B 页岩储层在 93 英里（150 公里）以下是连续的。

“其中包括约 100 万英亩的目标开发区域，其中页岩​​深度超过 [8,900 英尺]，”Tamboran 报道。

坦博兰领导的页岩气项目背后的美国页岩勘探者包括迪克·斯通伯恩纳（Dick Stoneburner）和布莱恩·谢菲尔德（Bryan Sheffield） 。 Energy Inc.，于 2021 年以 76 亿美元的价格出售给 Pioneer Natural Resources Co.。

为 Tamboran 进行钻探的公司是总部位于俄克拉荷马州的 Helmerich & Payne Inc.，该公司为 Tamboran 的作业带来了美国页岩油级超规格FlexRig 3 。该钻机在 21.5 天内达到总深度，平均每天 500 英尺 (153 m)。

“这是 Beetaloo 子盆地钻探井的新纪录，”Tamboran 报道。

Tamboran (B2) Pty Ltd. 是拥有 77.5% 权益的运营商，目前计划钻探 3,300 英尺（1,000 米）的侧向钻探，并于今年秋季完成该段 10 级的一半工作。澳大利亚猎鹰石油天然气有限公司拥有 22.5% 的股份。

Tamboran (B2) 是 Tamboran 和 Daly Waters Energy LP 50:50 的合资企业，由总部位于德克萨斯州奥斯汀的 Sheffield Holdings LP 100% 拥有。

总部位于休斯敦的斯通伯恩纳 (Stoneburner) 是坦博兰资源公司 (Tamboran Resources) 的董事长。

Tamboran 是澳大利亚最大的土地所有者和运营商，在澳大利亚北领地大麦克阿瑟盆地的 Beetaloo 子盆地拥有约 190 万英亩的净预期土地。

U.S. shale leaders’ Tamboran Resources Ltd. joint venture report its Shenandoah South 1H well in northern Australia’s Beetaloo Basin found some 300 ft (90 m) of Mid Velkerri B shale “with strong gas shows.”

Tamboran Managing Director and CEO Joel Riddle said initial data supports “our view that the deeper areas in the Beetaloo Basin contain some of the thickest and highest-quality B shale intersected to date in the Beetaloo.”

The hole, which was drilled to 10,800 ft (3,300 m), found what “represents the thickest section of Mid Velkerri B shale seen in the Beetaloo sub-basin depo-center to date,” Tamboran reported Aug. 30.

Porosity and gas saturation are “consistent with the Marcellus shale,” it added.

Initial indications from the Shenandoah and offset wells—Amungee 2H and Beetaloo W1—are that the B-shale reservoir is continuous under 93 miles (150 km).

“This includes a target development area of approximately 1 million acres where the shale depth exceeds [8,900 feet],” Tamboran reported.

U.S. shale explorers behind the Tamboran-led shale-gas project are Dick Stoneburner, a co-founder of Haynesville early developer Petrohawk Energy Corp. that made the Eagle Ford discovery in the fall of 2008, and Bryan Sheffield, founder of Permian-focused Parsley Energy Inc., which was sold in 2021 to Pioneer Natural Resources Co. for $7.6 billion.

Drilling for Tamboran is Oklahoma-based Helmerich & Payne Inc., which brought a U.S.-shale-level super-spec FlexRig 3 to the play for Tamboran. The rig reached total depth in 21.5 days, averaging 500 ft (153 m) a day.

“This is a new record for wells drilled in the Beetaloo sub-basin,” Tamboran reported.

Tamboran (B2) Pty Ltd., which is operator with 77.5% interest, plans to now drill a 3,300-ft (1,000-m) lateral and complete half of the section with 10 stages this fall. Falcon Oil and Gas Australia Ltd. owns 22.5%.

Tamboran (B2) is a 50:50 joint venture of Tamboran and Daly Waters Energy LP, which is 100% owned by Austin, Texas-based Sheffield Holdings LP.

Houston-based Stoneburner is chairman of Tamboran Resources.

Tamboran is Australia’s largest acreage-holder and operator with some 1.9 million net prospective acres in the Beetaloo sub-basin of the Greater McArthur Basin in Australia’s Northern Territory.