Frontier drilling comes at a price
Issue 208
- 30 Apr 2011
| 1 minute read
While oil prices remain resolutely high, recent wells underline the high cost of drilling in Africa’s frontier areas. A dry well drilled by Hess earlier this year in Egypt’s North Red Sea Block 1 cost more than $250m, industry sources say.
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