Hello from Scotland! Maybe I should post a recipe for haggis! Or will I go out and shoot one instead! ;-)
Found this on Rigzone:
Woodside Petroleum Ltd said it believes the Tiof oil discovery off the coast of Mauritania holds about 287 mln barrels of recoverable oil.
The group's chief operating officer Keith Spence said appraisal work is continuing with a development decision possible by mid-year or the third quarter.
"We don't have a development plan yet," Spence told an analyst briefing Related Products
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after Woodside, about one-third owned by the Royal Dutch/Shell group, reported its full year profit results.
Spence said the estimate is a lower than "perhaps people had been expecting" and different development options will need to considered than if the field contained over 400 mln barrels, adding that the field is likely to be developed as a standalone project.
On Monday, Hardman Resources Ltd, an Australian partner in Woodside-operated project, said Tiof might could contain as much as 1 bln barrels of oil but all of this will not be recoverable.
Hardman said the Tiof-6 appraisal well had an encouraging oil flow but the sands tested are of poorer quality than those at joint venture partners' nearby Chinguetti oilfield, already under development.
Woodside owns 53.846 pct of Tiof while Hardman has 21.6 pct. BG Group Plc has 11.63 pct, the Premier Oil group of companies also of the UK, has 9.23 pct and Australia's Roc Oil holds 3.693 pct.
http://www.rigzone.com/news/article.asp?a_id=20424