NuEnergy drills CBM well in Sumatra
Published by Harleigh Hobbs,
Editor
World Coal,
NuEnergy Gas has started drilling at its coalbed methane (CBM) well, RE-CBM-01CE, at the Rengat PSC in Central Sumatra, Indonesia. It is approximately 195 km south of Penkanbaru.
NuEnergy has used the MCQ 700 fully-hydraulic automated truck-mounted rig and drilled to a 495 km depth. The company has reported that is used the MCQ 700 because it has both coring and drilling top drives, a reduced carbon footprint and inter-well mobilisation.
Once this drill is completed, the company plans to mobilise it to the second well, RE-CBM-02CE, which is located 30 km southwest of RE-CBM-01CE. The company plant to carry out permeability testing on coal formations to indentify and locate coal continuity throughout the basin for further development.
Edited from Press Release by Harleigh Hobbs
Read the article online at: https://www.worldcoal.com/cbm/24062015/nuenergy-drills-cbm-well-in-sumatra-2464/
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