South Africa: CNRL looks toward deepwater exploration
Canadian Natural Resources Ltd., Calgary, said it completed conversion of the license of the company’s 100% working interest block offshore South Africa in the quarter ended June 30.
All regulatory requirements to drill a well are complete, and targeted drilling windows are in late 2013-early 2014 and late 2014-early 2015.
The company sees basin floor fans as thick as 150 m in the Paddavissie fairway on the western part of Block 11B/12B southeast of Mossel Bay. Upslope production exists to the west in Oryx and Oribi oil fields in the Bredasdorp basin.
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.
