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Area Drilling

01/15/2007
ItalyThe ministry approved the Vega Oil SPA unit of Cygam Energy Inc., Calgary, to explore the 83,264-acre Aretusa permit, its designation changed to C.R148.VG, in the Mediterranean off Sicily’s southeastern tip.Primary target is porous dolomites of the Upper Triassic Taormina formation, and a secondary target is carbonates of the Lower Jurassic Villagonia formation deposited above Streppenosa black shales, the area’s main source rocks.The area’s only well, Aretusa-1 in 1985, flowed 1,500 b/d of 36° gravity oil and 11.5 MMcfd of gas on a short test from Villagonia fractured pelagic limestones. The well stopped short of the Taormina formation.Vega plans to acquire, re...
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