Eric Watkins
Senior Correspondent
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 27 -- Australia's Hardman Resources Ltd. said its Tevet-2 appraisal well off Mauritania cut "gas and oil-bearing sands" similar in thickness to those at its Tevet-1 discovery well (OGJ, Dec. 6, 2004, p. 42).
With the well drilled to 2,785 m, Hardman has run wireline logs, sampled fluid, and measured downhole pressures in the Miocene appraisal objective. Preliminary evaluation of wireline and drilling data indicates a gross gas interval of about 1.5 m above a gross oil interval of about 37 m.
The Tevet-2 well is 2.5 km south of the discovery well in 466 m of water. With a planned TD of 3,965 m, it also will test a deeper Cretaceous target.
Hardman has a 21.6% stake in the field. Australia's Woodside Petroleum Ltd. holds 53.8%, BG Group 11.6%, Premier Oil 9.2%, and Roc Oil Co. Ltd. 3.7%.
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