Empire Energy Group Limited has mobilised a PLT to log C-2H and will flow the well while running the PLT for approximately 2 days. The well is being choked back to maintain a relatively constant rate of ~2 mmcf per day while the PLT is run. The PLT will provide Empire's technical team with highly detailed production data for each fracture stimulation cluster within each stage and will be combined with previously collected tracer data to better understand how each cluster and stage contribute to aggregate production.

The data will assist Empire to tailor its fracture stimulation completion strategy including perforation strategy, proppant concentration, fluid mix and pump schedule for the fracture stimulation operations on C-3H and future wells. In the success case, this test will allow Empire to identify which of the fracture stimulation designs utilised in C-2H are more productive than others, so that in future wells including C-3H, Empire will be able to optimise fracture stimulation design to generate more gas production per stage and therefore drive up overall well productivity. Carpentaria-3H Update: Empire will commence fracture stimulation of C-3H imminently.

The plan is to stimulate up to 40 stages across approximately 2,000 metres (6,562 ft) of the 2,632 metre (8,635 ft) horizontal section with stages at a nominal ~50 metre (164 ft) spacing. The planned program at C-3H is double the size of the C-2H program where Empire successfully fracture stimulated 21 stages across a 927 metre (3,041 ft) horizontal section. The planned C-3H fracture stimulation program will be the largest fracture stimulation operation in the Beetaloo Basin to date and in the history of the Australian onshore oil & gas industry.

The C-3H activities demonstrate yet again that Empire is leading Beetaloo Basin momentum to maximise production flow rates and optimise costs. The C-3H fracture stimulation design will benefit from the significant learnings from C-2H fracture stimulation specific to the Beetaloo Basin, and subsequent flow testing, which Empire expects will enhance well productivity and assist in further reducing company's cost base. Carpentaria-4V Update: After a short delay caused by recent rainfall, the mobilization of Schlumberger Land Rigs 185 to the C-4V drilling site is now well underway.

Mobilisation is nearly complete, and drilling will commence immediately thereafter. The principal goal of the C-4V drilling program is to demonstrate that the Velkerri shales in the Western part of EP187 extend into the Carpentaria East area. In the success case, this may result in a material increase in independently assessed contingent (i.e. discovered) resources across the tenement.