Troubled Strike Energy inks gas transport deal with APA Group


Gas from Strike Energy’s (ASX:STX) WA-based Walyering gasfield – up to 10 terajoules (TJ) per day – will soon flow through the WA Dampier to Bunbury natgas pipeline from late 2024.

This comes on the back of a fresh deal with pipeline giant APA Group inked Tuesday.

A new connection will be constructed to link up the pipeline with Strike’s Walyering assets – thus the wait until late-year.

Strike wants to use the Dampier-Bunbury pipeline for liquidity purposes.

In short: nearly all of WA’s daily gas is ported through the Dampier pipeline (abbreviated DBNGP), providing an “attractive market for Strike’s incremental sales.”

“Strike intends to run a marketing process for this additional volume in the coming months,” the company wrote on Tuesday.

Last month, the Walyering field hit nameplate capacity with Strike reporting a potential to produce 34TJ per day.

A solid 34TJ of gas was reportedly delivered into the domestic gas market on 6th of February – given strong enough demand, Strike says it can keep this up.

An appraisal well will be sunk on-site at Walyering in the coming weeks and months – Walyering-7 – and if results come up strong downhole that asset, the company could see sentiment towards it recover.

In January of 2024, Strike shares were worth 50cps – as of Tuesday morning, they’re up 3.57% to 21.8cps.

Strike tumbled dramatically in Q1CY2024 when it revealed that its South Erregulla assets might not be that exciting a value proposition for investors.

Strike’s producing gas plays have also been the subject of interest from high-profile WA mining billionaires.

Shares last at 21.8cps.


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