Sunda Energy, the AIM-quoted exploration and appraisal company focused on gas assets in Southeast Asia, announced that an environmental baseline survey has commenced in preparation for the drilling of the planned Chuditch-2 appraisal well, which is scheduled to be drilled in Q2 2025.

The survey vessel "Outer Limit" is now on location and has today commenced studies, consisting of extensive sampling of the marine environment. The survey is expected to be completed within 5 days and the results and analysis from the survey will be incorporated into the Environmental Impact Statement, which is currently under preparation as part of the approvals process for the drilling of the well.

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Sunda Energy’s wholly owned Timor-Leste subsidiary SundaGas Banda Unipessoal Lda. (“SundaGas”) is the Operator of and 60% interest holder in the offshore Timor-Leste TL-SO-19-16 PSC. The remaining 40% interest is held by a subsidiary of the Timor-Leste state oil company Timor Gap, E.P., whose interest is carried by SundaGas to development.

The Chuditch PSC is located approximately 185km south of Timor-Leste, 100km east of the producing Bayu-Undan field, and 50km south of the Greater Sunrise potential development. It covers an area of approximately 3,571 km², in water depths of 50-100m, and contains the Chuditch-1 gas discovery drilled by Shell in 1998. The well encountered a 30m gross gas column in the Jurassic Plover formation on the flank of a large, faulted structure.

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