VOL. XLV

No 38

23-September-2002

MAURITANIA

Woodside To Drill Banda Prospect AfterMechanical Failure At Chinguetti-4-2 Well

AustraliasWoodside Petroleum announced on 10 September it was planning to drill a well onthe Banda prospect in Mauritaniasoffshore Area A after the mechanical failure of test equipment forced theabandonment of testing at the Chinguetti-4-2 step-out well in offshore Area B (MEES, 9 September). Testing of the firstzone yielded maximum flows of 1,560 b/d ofoil and 650,000 cf/d...