Georgina Energy (GEX) has completed a detailed site inspection at its Hussar prospect within EP513, as preparations advance for a planned re-entry drilling programme later this year.
Company representatives and technical consultants visited the site on 12 February 2026 to review drilling and camp pad requirements, access routes, water well drilling, airstrip remediation and a potential secondary airstrip at Carnegie Station. The programme is designed to ensure civil works are completed to allow rapid mobilisation of the drilling rig and commencement of drilling on schedule.
At Hussar, the two main subsalt reservoir targets are the Townsend Formation and fractured Neoproterozoic basement lithologies. The final site layout was inspected in compliance with the Well Management Programme submitted to the Department of Mines, Petroleum and Exploration for approval of the civil works plan, and was confirmed as fit for purpose.
During the visit, drill pad dimensions were verified, water well and access road locations approved, and previous seismic lines reviewed. In addition, Geobit Instruments SmartSolo microtremor HVSR readings were taken to estimate depth to bedrock at the drilling site. The proposed camp location was inspected and deemed appropriate.
Meanwhile, the nearby Hussar airstrip was assessed and is expected to require only minimal grading. The Carnegie Station airstrip was also inspected as a back-up option, offering longer dimensions and well-maintained surface conditions. Access routes for rig mobilisation and helicopter refuelling areas were similarly reviewed and confirmed as suitable.
The company’s technical consultants, Aztech Well Construction, continue to issue Requests for Quotation covering casing, wellhead equipment, drilling rigs and service company support, including electric logging, casing running and cementing, drilling fluid engineering, wellsite geology, mudlogging and gas sampling and laboratory analysis services.
Importantly, the drilling programme and associated civil works, including access routes, airstrip works and water well drilling, will be funded solely by Harlequin Energy and its partners under a structured offtake funding arrangement described as non-dilutive to Georgina shareholders. Civil engineering works are expected to commence in Q2 2026.
Georgina Energy’s Chief Executive Officer Anthony Hamilton said: “The company anticipates drilling of the Hussar prospect re-entry well in Q3, 2026 and is moving ahead with the necessary preparatory planning and civil engineering works required to enable the testing of this exciting prospect. With 300 km2 of areal closure, it is one of the largest subsalt Helium, Hydrogen and Hydrocarbons prospects in onshore Australia.”
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The confirmation that site layout, access routes and airstrips are fit for purpose reduces execution risk ahead of mobilisation.
If civil works begin in Q2 and drilling follows in Q3 as planned, Georgina will move from planning into a clear catalyst phase, with Hussar positioned as a potentially large subsalt helium, hydrogen and hydrocarbons target in onshore Australia.