Petronas lets Ethiopian seismic contract

Malaysia's state-run Petronas has let contract to China's Zhongyuan Petroleum Exploration Bureau (ZPEB) to begin seismic surveys of eastern Ethiopia's Ogaden basin next month.

May 15, 2006

Eric Watkins
Senior Correspondent

LOS ANGELES, May 15 -- Malaysia's state-run Petronas has let contract to China's Zhongyuan Petroleum Exploration Bureau (ZPEB) to begin seismic surveys of eastern Ethiopia's Ogaden basin next month.

ZPEB will shoot seismic surveys in three blocks covering 93,000 sq km in the areas of Fer Fer, Warder, and Genale. ZPEB will begin the seismic survey in Genale, 1,200 km east of Addis Ababa near the border with Somalia.

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