1. Offshore Mauritania
Roc Oil (Mauritania) Company, a wholly owned
subsidiary of ROC, advises that as at 0100 hours (local time) on 28 April
2008, the Banda NW ST-1 sidetrack well, had reached a Total Depth of 2,934
mBRT and wireline logs, including sampling and pressure measurement tools,
were being run.
Preliminary
logging results indicate that the well has encountered oil and gas columns
with contacts similar to those seen in the discovery well, approximately 2
kilometres to the east.
Participating
Interests in the PSC Area B Joint Venture are:
ROC Group
Companies..................................................... 3.693%
PC Mauritania I Pty Ltd
(Operator)................................. 53.846%
Tullow Oil
plc.....................................................................
21.600%
Mauritania Holdings B.V..................................................
11.630%
Premier Oil Mauritania B Limited..................................... 9.231%
2. Blane Oil
Field, North Sea
Roc Oil (GB)
Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of ROC, advises that as at 0600 hours
(local time) on 25 April 2008, the "Ocean Princess" rig had
moved off location following successfully completing injectivity tests on the
30/3a-3z well.
The forward
programme is to finalise the connection of the 30/3a-3z well to the Ula
Platform and commission the well by the end of May 2008.
Unitised
Interests in the Blane Oil Field are:
Roc Oil (GB)
Limited............................................................ 12.5%
Talisman Energy (UK) Limited
(Operator)....................... 25.0%
Talisman Energy Norge AS................................................
18.0%
MOC Exploration (UK) Limited
(a subsidiary of Nippon Oil Corporation)......................... 14.0%
ENI UK Limited
..................................................................... 13.9%
ENI ULX
Limited......................................................................
4.1%
Bow Valley Petroleum (UK) Limited.................................. 12.5%