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October 6th, 2004:

Woodside checks out early signs of African oil finds

Lloyds List: Woodside checks out early signs of African oil finds

“Shell and Pan-Ocean Energy have found oil with the Awokou onshore well in Gabon.”

Martyn Wingrove

Oct 06, 2004

WOODSIDE is evaluating signs that it has struck oil with its latest deepwater exploration wells in Mauritania, increasing its reserves in two key oilfield developments in the African country.

The Australian oil company is drilling a 21-well programme offshore Mauritania with two drilling units and has already gained encouraging indications of finding new oil reserves.

Semi-submersible Stena Tay, drilling on the Tevet prospect 10 km north east of the Chinguetti field, has encountered oil-bearing zones. It has started a logging programme on the well to provide more details of the potential reserves in the prospect. read more

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We need Dutch courage to compete with the US

The Times: We need Dutch courage to compete with the US

“Even the great Dutch firms are looking a bit sickly: Royal Dutch Petroleum, the senior Shell partner, is low in oil and embroiled in scandal…”

European Briefing

By Carl Mortished

October 06, 2004

WHO will be the great Dutch traders of the 21st century? A small and exceedingly wealthy country, the Netherlands has always been about trade, more about buying and selling things than making them. From the early 17th century the Dutch have been roaming the world, finding inexpensive goods and shipping them out or exploiting cheap labour in remote places for a quick profit.

What has happened to the flair, the ruthless eye for commercial advantage? Today, the Netherlands looks rich but tired, its economy is going gently nowhere and unemployment is on the rise. Even the great Dutch firms are looking a bit sickly: Royal Dutch Petroleum, the senior Shell partner, is low in oil and embroiled in scandal, Unilever has been mugged by American competitors while Philips is treading water in a sea of Asian electronics. And KLM? It has been devoured by the French. read more

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