Bowen Energy applied for 300 sub blocks covering the Cape River Project area, 70km south-east of Pentland in North Queensland.

This area represents an under explored region which potentially hosts Permian sub-basins concealed below thin Tertiary and Palaeozoic cover (units of the Campaspe and Suttor Formations). Such sub-basins are prospective for significant thermal coal resources similar to those of the Wolfang and Blair Athol sub-basins located further to the south near Clermont.