Middle East Economic Survey

VOL. XLVIII

No 48

28-November-2005

MAURITANIA

Woodside Abandons Labeidna-1 Well As Planned

Australias Woodside Petroleum on 22 November announced that the Stena Tay drilling rig had finished wireline log acquisition on the Labeidna-1 exploration well which was then plugged and abandoned as planned. The well was drilled to a total depth of 3,080ms. Woodside said preliminary evaluation of the data acquired from the well indicates that it intersected a gross oil-bearing...