Replies to post #22034 on Empire Energy Corporation Intl. (fka EEGC)

[oilsleuth]

It is spelled Shittim (a wood mentioned in the bible) and there were only trace amounts of C2-C6 hydrocarbons with some methane in fractures in contact metamorphosed basement sediments and dolerite i.e. an unlikely lithological and structural setting. The gas is apparently derived from some distance away by lateral dispersion through impervious rocks. The hole was drilled on Bruny Island which was excluded from SEL 13/1998 when it was reduced in size on being renewed and it is outside the present EL 14/2009

Bruny Island has something of folklore status in GSLM's oil exploration for its suspect/erroneous reports of oil occurrences there in Johnson's Well and at The Neck between north and south Bruny Island.