Middle East Economic Survey

VOL. XLVII

No 46

15-November-2004

MAURITANIA

Woodside Drills Dry Hole On Capitaine Prospect

Woodside announced on 5 November that its Capitaine-1A exploration well had been drilled to a total depth of 3,130ms but had not encountered hydrocarbons. Some good quality Early Miocene age sands have been intersected but are interpreted as water bearing, Woodside said in a statement. The Capitaine-1A well was testing a structural trap within the Chinguetti channel sand system...