AWE Limited provides the following update on the unconventional shale and tight gas testing program being undertaken at the Arrowsmith-2 well in the North Perth Basin, Western Australia.

The Operator, Norwest Energy (ASX: NWE) has reported that clean-up and flowback of the Kockatea shale zone has ceased and that the Arrowsmith-2 well has been shut in to monitor pressure build-up characteristics.

During the flowback operations of the Kockatea zone, approximately 78% of injected fracture fluids have been recovered after swabbing the well to a maximum planned depth of 2,600 metres. Gas rates of up to 70,000 standard cubic feet per day (scf/d) were achieved during the flowback period, with the gas rate over the last 24 hour period observed at 45,000 scf/d.

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