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- From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
- Subject: Marathon Oil to Drill in Timor Gap
- Message-ID: <1992Nov11.004925.20873@mont.cs.missouri.edu>
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- /** reg.easttimor: 349.0 **/
- ** Topic: Marathon Poised For Gap **
- ** Written 7:37 am Nov 10, 1992 by gn:tapol in cdp:reg.easttimor **
- Subject: Marathon Poised For Gap
-
- /* Written 2:28 pm Nov 9, 1992 by igc:apakabar in gn:reg.indonesia */
- /* ---------- "Marathon Poised For Gap" ---------- */
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- Forwarded from Indoz-net:
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- Marathon poised for Timor OK
- ------------------
- by Gordon Feeney
- in Darwin
- -----------------
- OIL giant Marathon Petroleum is expected within days to get the go-
- ahead to begin the first exploration drilling in the joint Australian-
- Indonesia Timor Gap oil-fields. The jointly managed area in the Timor Sea
- between north Australia and Timor was the subject of a special agreement
- between the two governments in December 1989. Initial seismic testing has
- indicated large reserves of oil may exist, but considerable doubt surrounds
- the size of the reserve.
- Executive director of the Australia-Indonesia Joint Authority for the
- Timor Gap Zone of Cooperation, Stuart Cave said he expected to advise Mara-
- thon of its decision on a proposed drilling contract this week. "They've
- come to us to approve a contract, and we're in the process of reviewing it",
- Mr Cave said. "We've asked them for some additional information... and if it
- is as they say it is, we just need the piece of paper to prove it, then we
- won't have any problems," Mr Cave said.
- A report in the Sunday Territorian newspaper said Marathon intended to
- use Attwood Oceanics (Australia) Pty Ltd to carry out the drilling. The like-
- ly rig was the Falcon, presently in Bass Strait, and due to be moved to Fre-
- mantle. Marathon's exploration manager Greg Meldrum said he could not confirm
- either that Attwood would do the drilling, or the Falcon rig would be used
- (The Daily Telegraph Mirror, Tuesday, November 3, 1992, p. 25). In addition
- to this, British Petroleum Asia Pacific and Japan's C. Itoh & Co. Ltd have
- been given approval to build a $US600 million oil refinery project on Bintan
- island in Indonesia (The Australian, Monday, November 9, 1992, p. 24).
-
- E-mailer:
- Yusuf L. Henuk
-
- ** End of text from cdp:reg.easttimor **
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