EXPLORATION

Woodside ditches only onshore interest

HISTORY records the fortitude of Henry Morton Stanley, who pushed into darkest, unmapped Tanzania to find missing aristocrat David Livingstone on the shores of Lake Tanganyika in 1871, but Woodside Petroleum has given up the ghost in its pursuit of hydrocarbons in the same area almost 150 years later by passing up a chance to explore the south of the lake with Beach Energy.