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West Australian
16 hours ago
- Business
- West Australian
Empire/Beetaloo stimulates gas extraction at massive NT project
Empire Energy Group, under its new name Beetaloo Energy Australia, has kick-started hydraulic stimulation activities at the company's 3.31-kilometre-long Carpentaria-5H horizontal well in the Northern Territory's massive Beetaloo Basin. The new moniker reflects the company's determination to focus on the Beetaloo sub–basin and positions itself to become the nation's next big onshore gas player. It will migrate from the ASX ticker EEG to BTL from the start of trading tomorrow. Beetaloo plans to complete more than 60 stimulation stages along a 3.31km, 5.5-inch cased section within the Velkerri B shale in the well, which is the longest horizontal well in the Beetaloo sub-basin. Beetaloo expects the program will take four weeks. The Carpentaria-5H well sits within the company's Beetaloo Basin EP187 permit. Along with the Carpentaria-2H and Carpentaria-3H wells, Carpentaria-5H forms part of the company's Carpentaria pilot project. The 2H and 3H wells were drilled and stimulated from the same well pad. Beetaloo used specialist firms to refine the design of the stimulation program to ensure it considered lessons learned from previous well stimulation programs. It has charged industry-leading firm Halliburton with stimulating the super-long well. Halliburton's equipment will provide much-needed punch to the program, which is designed to maximise production rates and gas recovery levels. Due to the longer well length and larger casing diameter, the stimulation program design will utilise an increased 42,000 hydraulic horsepower for larger pumping rates, increased fluid and proppant (sand) intensity, and a dedicated slickwater design. It includes a revised perforation strategy and various other enhancements. The benchmarks include a 100-barrel (bbl) per minute pump rate, 50bbl per foot slickwater stimulation fluid intensity and a 2400-pound per foot proppant intensity. Underwood said horizontal drilling and hydraulic stimulation revolutionised the United States' energy system, driving down energy prices and emissions intensity while stimulating economic activity. Australia has the same opportunity through the development of the Beetaloo Basin, he said. When the stimulation program finishes, Beetaloo will undertake a 30-day clean-up and soak, followed by a 30-day production test to check the flow rate levels. The company anticipates the release of IP30 flow rates within the next three months. The 3.31km horizontal well sits at an average depth of 1580 metres below ground within a 70m-thick B shale reservoir. The planned stimulation of more than 60 stages will use the standard plug and perf technique. Commonly used in shale formations, the technique involves setting temporary bridge plugs at specific intervals within a wellbore to isolate and treat different zones sequentially. After setting the plug, perforating guns are used to create openings in the well casing and surrounding formation. The perforations allow the hydraulic stimulation fluid to be pumped in to fracture the rock. Following successful hydraulic stimulation and production flow testing, the company plans to construct the Carpentaria pilot project. The project will determine a long-term production curve to support future development planning. When the well has been stimulated, it will be shut in and tied into the Carpentaria gas plant for production. Beetaloo will then seek the regulatory nod for gas sales under the NT's beneficial use of test gas rules. Management plans to eventually draw sufficient gas from the basin to supply the NT government with as much as 100 terajoules of gas per day. Beetaloo holds a commanding 117,000 square kilometres of prospective exploration tenements in the NT's McArthur Basin and Beetaloo sub-basins. Both basins offer enormous hydrocarbon potential. The company remains stacked with funds, highlighting its cash at bank is a healthy $40.5 million. It follows the company raising a handy $28 million in May to bolster its Beetaloo Basin exploration plans. Beetaloo also retains access to $28.8 million in undrawn Macquarie Bank facilities. Boosted by continual funding, its large cash holding and a world-class gas region, Beetaloo has come far. Test flow results expected in the next few months should provide a guide to just how far Carpentaria has come along the path to success. Is your ASX-listed company doing something interesting? Contact:
Sydney Morning Herald
16 hours ago
- Business
- Sydney Morning Herald
Empire/Beetaloo stimulates gas extraction at massive NT project
Empire Energy Group, under its new name Beetaloo Energy Australia, has kick-started hydraulic stimulation activities at the company's 3.31-kilometre-long Carpentaria-5H horizontal well in the Northern Territory's massive Beetaloo Basin. The new moniker reflects the company's determination to strategically focus on the Beetaloo sub–basin and positions itself to become the nation's next big onshore gas player. It will migrate from the ASX ticker EEG to BTL from the start of trading tomorrow. Beetaloo plans to complete more than 60 stimulation stages along a 3.31km, 5.5-inch cased section within the Velkerri B shale in the well, which is the longest horizontal well in the Beetaloo sub-basin. Beetaloo expects the program will take four weeks. The Carpentaria-5H well sits within the company's Beetaloo Basin EP187 permit. Along with the Carpentaria-2H and Carpentaria-3H wells, Carpentaria-5H forms part of the company's Carpentaria pilot project. The 2H and 3H wells were drilled and stimulated from the same well pad. 'The stimulation of Carpentaria-5H is an historic moment in the development of the Beetaloo Basin.' Beetaloo Energy managing director Alex Underwood Beetaloo used specialist firms to refine the design of the stimulation program to ensure it considered lessons learned from previous well stimulation programs. It has charged industry-leading firm Halliburton with stimulating the super-long well. Halliburton's equipment will provide much-needed punch to the program, which is designed to maximise production rates and gas recovery levels. Due to the longer well length and larger casing diameter, the stimulation program design will utilise an increased 42,000 hydraulic horsepower for larger pumping rates, increased fluid and proppant (sand) intensity, and a dedicated slickwater design. It includes a revised perforation strategy and various other enhancements. The benchmarks include a 100-barrel (bbl) per minute pump rate, 50bbl per foot slickwater stimulation fluid intensity and a 2400-pound per foot proppant intensity.
The Age
16 hours ago
- Business
- The Age
Empire/Beetaloo stimulates gas extraction at massive NT project
Empire Energy Group, under its new name Beetaloo Energy Australia, has kick-started hydraulic stimulation activities at the company's 3.31-kilometre-long Carpentaria-5H horizontal well in the Northern Territory's massive Beetaloo Basin. The new moniker reflects the company's determination to strategically focus on the Beetaloo sub–basin and positions itself to become the nation's next big onshore gas player. It will migrate from the ASX ticker EEG to BTL from the start of trading tomorrow. Beetaloo plans to complete more than 60 stimulation stages along a 3.31km, 5.5-inch cased section within the Velkerri B shale in the well, which is the longest horizontal well in the Beetaloo sub-basin. Beetaloo expects the program will take four weeks. The Carpentaria-5H well sits within the company's Beetaloo Basin EP187 permit. Along with the Carpentaria-2H and Carpentaria-3H wells, Carpentaria-5H forms part of the company's Carpentaria pilot project. The 2H and 3H wells were drilled and stimulated from the same well pad. 'The stimulation of Carpentaria-5H is an historic moment in the development of the Beetaloo Basin.' Beetaloo Energy managing director Alex Underwood Beetaloo used specialist firms to refine the design of the stimulation program to ensure it considered lessons learned from previous well stimulation programs. It has charged industry-leading firm Halliburton with stimulating the super-long well. Halliburton's equipment will provide much-needed punch to the program, which is designed to maximise production rates and gas recovery levels. Due to the longer well length and larger casing diameter, the stimulation program design will utilise an increased 42,000 hydraulic horsepower for larger pumping rates, increased fluid and proppant (sand) intensity, and a dedicated slickwater design. It includes a revised perforation strategy and various other enhancements. The benchmarks include a 100-barrel (bbl) per minute pump rate, 50bbl per foot slickwater stimulation fluid intensity and a 2400-pound per foot proppant intensity.
Yahoo
01-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Six Books You'll Want to Read Outdoors
Reading has been unfairly maligned as an indoor activity for far too long, in my opinion. As a child, when nice weather came around, I was told to put down my book and go play outside: You can read any old day, adults would say, reminding me that sunshine can be fleeting. The warm days of spring, full of blooming flowers, are certainly worth savoring while you can. But why not bring a book along? Over years of reading outdoors—seated on a park bench, sprawled on a beach blanket—I've come to see reading as an experience that, rather than offering an escape from my surroundings, in fact supplements my appreciation of the setting. Turning pages can be an act of mental and sensory enhancement. This kind of synergy can work two ways. Books can take readers to new places through vivid detail, allowing them to 'see' things that might not even exist. At the same time, reading can be a practice in slow, sustained attention, sharpening one's perception of the trees, the soil, the friends chattering at the next table in the beer garden. The books on this list employ both modes: Some offer intriguing glimpses into faraway places or striking journeys; others meditate on the beauty to be found in a backyard. Crucially, each makes its own case for leaving your reading nook and getting out into the world. , by Alexis Wright Great writing has the power to make a place you've never visited feel totally familiar. Carpentaria, Wright's brilliant, surprisingly funny novel, achieves that feat. Its setting, the town of Desperance, situated right below Australia's Gulf of Carpentaria, is the home of the Waanyi people to which Wright herself belongs. Her detailed attention to the environment—the smell of the sea at low tide, the sound of dingoes outside a cave, the feel of trudging through spinifex in the bush—grounds the book in a strong sense of place. Try listening to Carpentaria as an audiobook; the novel unfolds like an oral epic, more thematic than linear, slowly introducing its characters. We meet Normal Phantom, the gruff seagoing patriarch of the Westside Pricklebush people, and his beautiful, impetuous ex-wife, Angel Day, who seems to stir up trouble just by walking through town. Then there's Mozzie Fishman, keeper of Aboriginal history and tradition, and Will Phantom, a prodigal son who violently opposes the town's new mine. Over the span of 500 pages, these people come to feel intensely real, their stories becoming inextricable from their landscape. When I finished, I wasn't sure what I wanted to do more: visit Queensland myself or reread Carpentaria all over again. [Read: Seven books to read in the sunshine] , by Nan Shepherd 'I am a mountain lover,' writes Shepherd, 'because my body is at its best in the rarer air of the heights and communicates its elation to the mind.' Many avid hikers would agree. Shepherd spent most of her life near the Cairngorm mountains of the Scottish highlands, exploring the flora and fauna of the rugged hills as often as possible. The Living Mountain is a compilation of her reflections from 'hillwalking.' Written in the 1940s, the manuscript sat in her desk drawer unpublished until 1977—just four years before her death—and it has recently been reissued for American readers. It's a treasure both as a piece of nature writing about the United Kingdom and as a record of Shepherd's almost mystical relationship with the landscape: She was not the type to make for the summit and then quickly turn home. Her reflections emerge from unbounded curiosity paired with deep knowledge of the place and its rhythms. Shepherd is a humble but knowledgeable guide, often looking at a familiar peak or loch for so long that she sees it anew. As she writes, 'Often the mountain gives itself most completely when I have no destination, when I reach nowhere in particular, but have gone out merely to be with the mountain as one visits a friend with no intention but to be with him.' , by Jamaica Kincaid Kincaid's account of her three-week trek in Nepal—undertaken to collect rare seeds with several botanist friends—is sure to make any reader appreciate their local flora. Kincaid views the Himalayas through the lens of her own home garden in Vermont, searching for plants she can cultivate in the North Bennington climate as her group climbs up through the mountains. I often paused as I read to look up the species she mentions, shocked to see some of the huge plants that grow naturally in alpine zones. She approaches the experience as a true amateur, always ready to learn something new, and her honest reflections on the trip's difficulties make the book intimate and amusing. Reading Among Flowers feels like traveling alongside Kincaid: You can experience the highs of the journey (gorgeous vistas, rare native-plant sightings, camaraderie and companionship) alongside the lows (leeches, arduous climbs, Maoist guerrilla groups) without ever having to navigate the forbidding range yourself. [Read: The hidden cost of gardens] , by Sheila Heti If I could give you one book to read in dappled sunshine, I'd hand you Pure Colour. Heti's writing is witty, reflective, and just bizarre enough to capture your interest even as people mill about in your peripheral vision. The book is more fable than novel, following a girl named Mira as she grows up, gets a job at a lamp store, and then goes to school to become an art critic, where she falls in love. But things get a bit weirder when Mira's father, with whom she was especially close, dies. While Mira is grieving, she visits a tree that they both liked, and there, the souls of Mira and her father become literally conjoined in a leaf. Her time in the leaf makes up a short but highly potent part of the novel: Mira and her father enter into a wordless conversation on life, death, grief, and art, until Mira must be coaxed out of the leaf and back into the human world. In Pure Colour, Heti creates a world strange and wild enough to make readers look at their own life with renewed wonder. , by W. G. Sebald 'In August 1992, when the dog days were drawing to an end, I set off to walk the county of Suffolk, in the hope of dispelling the emptiness that takes hold of me whenever I have completed a long stint of work,' the melancholic, semi-autobiographical narrator of Sebald's genre-defying novel tells the reader. The Rings of Saturn has a peripatetic form: Not only does it follow a man wandering through Suffolk, but the novel's action largely lies in the meandering, digressive nature of memory itself. As he crosses the landscape, the narrator finds unexpected connections between the path under his feet and Joseph Conrad's seafaring days, Dowager Empress Cixi, the silk industry in Norwich, and Rembrandt's The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp, among other remembered bits of culture. The Rings of Saturn twists and turns in surprising ways, a reminder that much of what we see around us has its own intricate history, whether remembered or lost. [Read: The unbearable smugness of walking] , by Mary Oliver Lots of poets write work that makes one want to go out for a ramble, but Oliver's poems are particularly motivating. Many of her compositions recount quiet, daily revelations from the biosphere, ones that are experienced through sitting still and looking closely. For Oliver, this is a posture of respect—every bird or small pond or sunset is worthy of acknowledgment and inquiry. She is never sentimental or trite about nature, often dwelling on the death or on the overwhelming darkness of the world. Devotions offers a wide selection of poems from across Oliver's career: It is a perfect introduction to her work for the uninitiated, but with enough deeper cuts to entertain those who have already memorized 'Wild Geese.' Tuck Devotions in a bag and tramp through a wetland or forest, taking a break to read when you're tired. Don't feel bad for getting distracted by the bugs or birds around you. As Oliver writes, 'When it's over, I want to say: all my life / I was a bride married to amazement. / I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.' Article originally published at The Atlantic
Atlantic
01-05-2025
- Atlantic
Six Books That Will Make You Want to Touch Grass
Reading has been unfairly maligned as an indoor activity for far too long, in my opinion. As a child, when nice weather came around, I was told to put down my book and go play outside: You can read any old day, adults would say, reminding me that sunshine can be fleeting. The warm days of spring, full of blooming flowers, are certainly worth savoring while you can. But why not bring a book along? Over years of reading outdoors—seated on a park bench, sprawled on a beach blanket—I've come to see reading as an experience that, rather than offering an escape from my surroundings, in fact supplements my appreciation of the setting. Turning pages can be an act of mental and sensory enhancement. This kind of synergy can work two ways. Books can take readers to new places through vivid detail, allowing them to 'see' things that might not even exist. At the same time, reading can be a practice in slow, sustained attention, sharpening one's perception of the trees, the soil, the friends chattering at the next table in the beer garden. The books on this list employ both modes: Some offer intriguing glimpses into faraway places or striking journeys; others meditate on the beauty to be found in a backyard. Crucially, each makes its own case for leaving your reading nook and getting out into the world. Carpentaria, by Alexis Wright Great writing has the power to make a place you've never visited feel totally familiar. Carpentaria, Wright's brilliant, surprisingly funny novel, achieves that feat. Its setting, the town of Desperance, situated right below Australia's Gulf of Carpentaria, is the home of the Waanyi people to which Wright herself belongs. Her detailed attention to the environment—the smell of the sea at low tide, the sound of dingoes outside a cave, the feel of trudging through spinifex in the bush—grounds the book in a strong sense of place. Try listening to Carpentaria as an audiobook; the novel unfolds like an oral epic, more thematic than linear, slowly introducing its characters. We meet Normal Phantom, the gruff seagoing patriarch of the Westside Pricklebush people, and his beautiful, impetuous ex-wife, Angel Day, who seems to stir up trouble just by walking through town. Then there's Mozzie Fishman, keeper of Aboriginal history and tradition, and Will Phantom, a prodigal son who violently opposes the town's new mine. Over the span of 500 pages, these people come to feel intensely real, their stories becoming inextricable from their landscape. When I finished, I wasn't sure what I wanted to do more: visit Queensland myself or reread Carpentaria all over again. The Living Mountain, by Nan Shepherd 'I am a mountain lover,' writes Shepherd, 'because my body is at its best in the rarer air of the heights and communicates its elation to the mind.' Many avid hikers would agree. Shepherd spent most of her life near the Cairngorm mountains of the Scottish highlands, exploring the flora and fauna of the rugged hills as often as possible. The Living Mountain is a compilation of her reflections from 'hillwalking.' Written in the 1940s, the manuscript sat in her desk drawer unpublished until 1977—just four years before her death—and it has recently been reissued for American readers. It's a treasure both as a piece of nature writing about the United Kingdom and as a record of Shepherd's almost mystical relationship with the landscape: She was not the type to make for the summit and then quickly turn home. Her reflections emerge from unbounded curiosity paired with deep knowledge of the place and its rhythms. Shepherd is a humble but knowledgeable guide, often looking at a familiar peak or loch for so long that she sees it anew. As she writes, 'Often the mountain gives itself most completely when I have no destination, when I reach nowhere in particular, but have gone out merely to be with the mountain as one visits a friend with no intention but to be with him.' Among Flowers: A Walk in the Himalaya, by Jamaica Kincaid Kincaid's account of her three-week trek in Nepal—undertaken to collect rare seeds with several botanist friends—is sure to make any reader appreciate their local flora. Kincaid views the Himalayas through the lens of her own home garden in Vermont, searching for plants she can cultivate in the North Bennington climate as her group climbs up through the mountains. I often paused as I read to look up the species she mentions, shocked to see some of the huge plants that grow naturally in alpine zones. She approaches the experience as a true amateur, always ready to learn something new, and her honest reflections on the trip's difficulties make the book intimate and amusing. Reading Among Flowers feels like traveling alongside Kincaid: You can experience the highs of the journey (gorgeous vistas, rare native-plant sightings, camaraderie and companionship) alongside the lows (leeches, arduous climbs, Maoist guerilla groups) without ever having to navigate the forbidding range yourself. Pure Colour, by Sheila Heti If I could give you one book to read in dappled sunshine, I'd hand you Pure Colour. Heti's writing is witty, reflective, and just bizarre enough to capture your interest even as people mill about in your peripheral vision. The book is more fable than novel, following a girl named Mira as she grows up, gets a job at a lamp store, and then goes to school to become an art critic, where she falls in love. But things get a bit weirder when Mira's father, with whom she was especially close, dies. While Mira is grieving, she visits a tree that they both liked, and there, the souls of Mira and her father become literally conjoined in a leaf. Her time in the leaf makes up a short but highly potent part of the novel: Mira and her father enter into a wordless conversation on life, death, grief, and art, until Mira must be coaxed out of the leaf and back into the human world. In Pure Colour, Heti creates a world strange and wild enough to make readers look at their own life with renewed wonder. The Rings of Saturn, by W. G. Sebald 'In August 1992, when the dog days were drawing to an end, I set off to walk the county of Suffolk, in the hope of dispelling the emptiness that takes hold of me whenever I have completed a long stint of work,' the melancholic, semi-autobiographical narrator of Sebald's genre-defying novel tells the reader. The Rings of Saturn has a peripatetic form: Not only does it follow a man wandering through Suffolk, but the novel's action largely lies in the meandering, digressive nature of memory itself. As he crosses the landscape, the narrator finds unexpected connections between the path under his feet and Joseph Conrad's seafaring days, Dowager Empress Cixi, the silk industry in Norwich, and Rembrandt's The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp, among other remembered bits of culture. The Rings of Saturn twists and turns in surprising ways, a reminder that much of what we see around us has its own intricate history, whether remembered or lost. Devotions, by Mary Oliver Lots of poets write work that makes one want to go out for a ramble, but Oliver's poems are particularly motivating. Many of her compositions recount quiet, daily revelations from the biosphere, ones that are experienced through sitting still and looking closely. For Oliver, this is a posture of respect—every bird or small pond or sunset is worthy of acknowledgment and inquiry. She is never sentimental or trite about nature, often dwelling on the death or on the overwhelming darkness of the world. Devotions offers a wide selection of poems from across Oliver's career: It is a perfect introduction to her work for the uninitiated, but with enough deeper cuts to entertain those who have already memorized 'Wild Geese.' Tuck Devotions in a bag and tramp through a wetland or forest, taking a break to read when you're tired. Don't feel bad for getting distracted by the bugs or birds around you. As Oliver writes, 'When it's over, I want to say: all my life / I was a bride married to amazement. / I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.'
