Middle East Economic Survey

VOL. XLVII

No 50

13-December-2004

MAURITANIA

Woodsides Tiof-3 Well Hits Snag Preventing Flow Test; Merou-1 Well To Be Abandoned

Australias Woodside Petroleum announced on 30 November that it had encountered mechanical problems at its Tiof-3 appraisal well which prevented planned flow-testing there (MEES, 24 October). The company said the drill ship West Navigator would suspend the well as a potential future development well but that testing had been limited to acquiring...