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Dana details more drilling
 Aberdeen-based Dana Petroleum has provided further details of its 17-well exploration and appraisal programme planned for this year which will includes a well which will aim to open new prospectivity in the Nile Delta offshore Egypt.
Following on from previous success on the West El Burullus concession in the Nile Delta last year where it holds 50%, Dana says its next well there, on the Papyrus prospect, is due to kick off in September and will aim for a similar gas horizon which was intersected with the West El Burullus 1 discovery in 2008.
“The key aim of this well is to provide additional gas volumes in this area in order to optimise development planning,” Dana said in a statement to shareholders at its annual meeting.
Then a second well is planned on the Bamboo prospect, which is due to be spudded in November this year.
Bamboo will be targeting deeper, high pressure gas reservoirs, Dana said, “...which have the potential to open up significant further prospectivity in the block.
In northern Europe, Dana indicated that a well offshore the Faroese West of Shetlands region on the Anne Marie prospect has been deferred until the second quarter 2010, due to recent delays in rig arrival times and as part of an effort to optimise time for wells planned for the spring and summer weather windows this year.
Others Dana wells this year are to be drilled onshore Morocco and Egypt.Advertisement
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