CSIRO HELPS FIND OIL IN PNG

摘要

A team of ten CSIRO researchers has helped Canadian oil company InterOil find exciting new oil shows in Papua New Guinea. This early success follows from a vigorous exploration program, conducted in an ongoing research partnership with CSIRO's Petroleum Division. The CSIRO studies have been critical to this result, consolidating evidence for a new petroleum system in InterOil's exploration licenses. In late July InterOil announced finding fourteen oil shows through 135m of cored Tertiary limestones in the Moose-I STI well, located 350km northwest of Port Moresby, in the Gulf Province of Papua New Guinea. The company plans to undertake additional testing, production and development drilling to determine the structure's resource potential. Commercial confirmation would result in the first significant hydrocarbon discovery in the area in 44 years.