Cyprus looks to 2015 as decisive gas year

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Nicosia—It would be a somber mood in Cyprus if it were not for the fact that Italian major Eni did not have another three wells to drill in the island’s offshore during 2015. Eni’s first well at the Onasagoras structure in Block 9 turned out last month to be non-commercial, a hammer blow to Cyprus’ nascent natural gas sector. Cypriot energy minister Yiorgos Lakkotrypis broke the news to his compatriots the Friday before Christmas, announcing that the Saipem 10000 drillship had failed to make a worthwhile discovery, but that the search would continue straight away with a new well starting at the Amathusa structure in a matter of days