The Turtle and Barnett Oil Development

The Turtle and Barnett oil fields were discovered in 1984 and 1985, respectively, and are located approximately 320 kilometres southwest of Darwin. Multiple oil bearing reservoirs have been encountered within the Keyling, Treachery, Kuriyippi, Tanmurra and Milligans formations. Three wells tested oil with Barnett-2 having flowed up to 921 barrels of oil per day on jet pump from the Lower Treachery Sandstone. The crude was of excellent quality at 38.6° API gravity.

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