DRILLING

Oil Search schedule under threat

INVESTIGATIONS into the two recent fatalities on board the Stena Clyde semi-submersible rig could impact Oil Search's plans to spud at least two wells in the Gulf of Papua and farm-out negotiations which are underway for licences in the region.

Blair Price

Oil Search confirmed to sister publication PNGIndustryNews.net that it did contract the rig for its offshore drilling campaign in Papua New Guinea, with drilling scheduled to start in late 2012 and to...

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