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Inpex to drill offshore Japan the ? eld, increasing produc- tives and has been identi? ed connected by pipeline to the tion by 7000 b/d, and three Japan’s Agency of Natural as a primary candidate for gas processing facility at Lang drilling rigs are currently Resources and Energy has drilling, the operator Cue said. Lang, Victoria. The Yolla plat- in operation, drilling new chosen Tokyo-based Inpex to The company has applied form is located in Bass Strait, wells or repairing wells that drill an exploratory well in to NOPTA to have the third some 140km offshore from are not currently producing the Sea of Japan. Exploratory year well commitment sus- Kilcunda, Victoria.

Global E&P Briefs oil, Rajab-Khani said. The drilling will take place May- pended to allow further time

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Russia increases ? eld has about 4.5 billion bbl August 2016, 80-86mi (130- to mature the prospect and

Arctic claims in-place reserves, with 1.6 bil- 140km) from the Yamaguchi plan for drilling. A farm-out lion bbl recoverable. and Shimane prefectures. process is underway to ? nd Russia’s Ministry of Foreign

Inpex will undertake a site suitable joint venture partners Affairs has submitted a

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Hawkeye-1 survey to map the subsea to drill the well. revised bid claiming 1.2 mil- disappoints surface and observe currents lion sq km of Arctic sea shelf

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Otto Energy’s Hawkeye-1 at the location to prepare for to the UN Commission on

Yolla-6 begins production exploration well, in the the operation. The objective the Limits of the Continental

Palawan basin, offshore of the project is to determine The Yolla-6 development Shelf.

Philippines, reached 2920m the presence of hydrocarbon well at the BassGas project Under Article 76 of the UN

TD and will be plugged and deposits and conduct geologi- offshore Australia has com- Convention on the Law of the abandoned. “The hydrocar- cal studies. menced production follow- Sea, Russia argues it has a bon size discovered is at the ing the successfully tie-in to right to extend its control up

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Cue discovers very low end of expecta- export facilities on the Yolla to 350nm.

Ironbark tions and is not economic platform. Canada, Norway, Denmark to develop,” said Matthew Cue Energy discovered a The early, unstablized pro- and the US are also attempt-

Allen, Otto’s MD and CEO. new play type, Ironbark, in duction rate from the BassGas ing to claim territories in

The well was thought to con- the WA-359-P permit offshore facilities has now increased to the Arctic. The sea shelf tain a best estimate STOIIP Western Australia, which the approximately 57 terajoules a is believed to hold a large of about 480 MMbbl; and company believes is associ- day following the addition of amount of oil and gas, which 65 MMbbl best estimate net ated with the proli? c gas- the Yolla-6 well. The BassGas Russia estimates could be • prospective resource. bearing Mungaroo Formation. project consists of the Yolla worth up to US$30 trillion.

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