A case study of the Snapper gas field offshore Gippsland

Abstract

The Victorian Department of Industry, Technology and Resources is currently carrying out a review of the Snapper Field gas reserves. The Snapper Field is a four-way ENE?WSW faulted anticline located 30 kms off the Gippsland coastline in an average water depth of 54 m (Fig. 1). The field was discovered by Esso-BHP in June 1968. To date six exploration wells (Snapper 1 to 6) and twenty-one development wells have been completed.