Omega Oil & Gas (ASX:OMA) said drilling data, surface logging, and wireline logs at the Canyon-3 well, the first well in its appraisal program, at the Canyon project in the Taroom Trough in Queensland show a 526-meter-thick, oil and gas-bearing Permian interval with 170 meters of aggregate net pay, according to a Monday Australian bourse filing.
The well reached a total depth of 3,792.6 meters on Aug. 15. Log analysis indicated that it is 14% thicker with 55% better porosity than in the original Canyon-1 well, encountering 18 meters of oil-bearing sands at an average porosity of 11.5% within a 42-meter-thick reservoir interval.
Canyon-4 is scheduled to begin in around 7 days.
Its shares jumped 6% in recent trading on Monday.