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Mines (ONHYM) agreed to a six-month Browse Basin gas discovery extension for the frst phase of explora-

Total E&P Australia discovered gas at the tion on the Loukos, Casablanca, and

Bassett West-1 exploration well in WA-408-P

Saf licences, off Morocco. The licenses in the Browse Basin off Western Australia will now extend until 11 January 2014. state. The well is about 475km north-north-

Chariot is reprocessing and interpret- east of Broome and reached 5239m TD in ing 11,000km of 2D seismic data.

368m of water. Testing confrmed 7.5m of gas

The licenses are 50km off Morocco pay in Jurassic sandstones on the western in 5-165m water depths. The Loukos fank of the large Bassett structure. Total license covers 1,925sq km, while the operates with 50%; Santos holds 30% and

Casablanca/Saf licenses cover 3,500 sq

Murphy Oil Corp. holds 20%. km. Chariot holds 75% interest and

ONHYM holds 25%.

N Lukoil Farmin

African independent Taleveras agreed to farmout a 65% interest and opera- torship in Ivory Coast Block CI-504 to Lukoil Overseas, a subsidiary of

Russian oil frm Lukoil. Taleveras will retain 25% interest and Petroci, the

Ivory Coast’s national oil company, will hold 10%. Lukoil operates block

CI-205 immediately south of CI-504.

Block CI-504 is close to Baobab feld, covering 399sq km in 800-2100m water depth.

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KrisEnergy spuds Tayum-1 well

KrisEnergy spudded the Tayum-1 exploration well in the Kutai PSC, offshore East Kalimantan, Indonesia, using the Randolph Yost jackup. The well is targeting multiple stacked deltaic sandstone reservoirs of Upper

Miocene age and will be drilled to 2563m TVD subsea.

P Australian bid round

Australia’s Department of Mines and

Petroleum (DMP) announced a new lease sale off Western Australia state.

Six licenses, four onshore and two off- shore, are being placed on the auction block. The offshore areas are within the Northern Carnarvon Basin off the

Pilbara coast.

The combined acreage for L13-1/

T13-1 covers about 370sq km south of

Barrow Island in the Barrow sub-basin.

Area L13-1 is a prospective oil lease, while T13-1’s sourthern portion has gas potential. Water depths are 10-50m.

Block L12-1, covers about 878sq km within the Barrow sub-basin, less than 50km northeast of Onslow. Work pro- gram bids close 14 November 2013.

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