On a bright note the company continued its successful run in Turkey, particularly in the Adatepe field, as their first well for 2004, D.Adatepe-1, has proved to be commercial with gas sand present from 1203.5m to 1223m, and will now be cased and readied for connection to the Adatepe gas plant.

The log results interpreted gas pays which correspond to the main gas sand interval present in all other Adatepe wells. At least 8m of pay exists in the main interval with the possibility of 2m of additional pay immediately beneath the main zone.

D. Adatepe-1 is the fourth development well on the Adatepe Field located 6.5km southeast of the Gocerler Gas Field in Petroleum Exploration Licence AR/AOI/3338, which forms part of "Area B" of the Thrace Joint Venture and is located approximately 120km west of Istanbul in Turkey's onshore Thrace Basin.

The well is operated by TPAO (50%) with Amity Oil International (50%).

The company also spudded its second well in the Cayirdere field, Cayirdere-3, which is also the field's first development well.

Cayirdere-3 is located about 33 km southeast of the Gocerler gasfield and will be the second production well on a shallow anticline with a coincident 2D seismic amplitude anomaly. The well is close to existing producing gasfields, pipelines and large industrial gas consumers.

Amity's most troublesome well, Whicher Range -5 looks like being suspended after drilling perforated the entire gas bearing section of the Sue Group.

The company has been forced to sidetrack the well several times due to difficult well conditions.

It has now been considered that perforation and flowing at this time would be unlikely to achieve a commercial flow and would expose the perforated zones to fluid invasion, thus compromising the success of any future stimulation.

The most likely forward program will be to suspend the well prior to a non-water fracture stimulation program to be conducted in a few months.