By OGJ editors
HOUSTON, May 15 -- Aminex PLC, London, let a contract to the Dafora Group of Romania for use of an F200 rig to drill two wells with an option for two more wells on the Nyuni license off Tanzania.
Nyuni 1 is to be spudded in August 2003, and drilling on the first two wells is to continue into early 2004. Costing $10 million, the wells will test separate structures. The Nyuni license is adjacent to coastal Songo Songo gas field, under development.
Aminex took a farmout on 30% of the Nyuni license from Petrom SA in December 2002.
The wells will be the first drilled off Tanzania in 12 years, Aminex said.
Units of Royal Dutch/Shell Group, Malaysia's state-owned Petroliam Nasional Bhd., and Woodside Petroleum Pty. Ltd. have also acquired acreage along the East African margin.
