DRILLING

It's a trapia

WHILE industry observers are wondering if the underway Trapia 1 exploration well will be part of a roll of PNG upstream successes in 2012 so far, they have no choice but to be patient as drilling faced another week of delay.

On June 7 the PNG LNG-affiliated well in the Southern Highlands was at a depth of 119m and three weeks later it remained stuck at this depth. In its update on June 28, Oil Search said equipment had...

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