East West Petroleum Corp., Vancouver, BC, was awarded the 500,000-acre Doukkala onshore block along Morocco’s Atlantic coast 125 km southwest of Casablanca.
East West Petroleum Corp., Vancouver, BC, was awarded the 500,000-acre Doukkala onshore block along Morocco’s Atlantic coast 125 km southwest of Casablanca.
The company will hold 75-25% interests with Morocco’s ONHYM for an 8-year exploration period.
East West will carry out regional geological studies, seismic acquisition and reprocessing, and exploratory drilling. It has identified conventional and unconventional oil plays on the acreage. Two wells encountered numerous hydrocarbon shows in Devonian shale at 1,500-3,000 m.
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Alan Petzet
Chief Editor Exploration
Alan Petzet is Chief Editor-Exploration of Oil & Gas Journal in Houston. He is editor of the Weekly E&D Newsletter, emailed to OGJ subscribers, and a regular contributor to the OGJ Online subscriber website.
Petzet joined OGJ in 1981 after 13 years in the Tulsa World business-oil department. He was named OGJ Exploration Editor in 1990. A native of Tulsa, he has a BA in journalism from the University of Tulsa.
