Petronas finds oil in Vietnam
Petroleum Nasional Bhd and its partner PetroVietnam have been successful in their drilling campaign via the Diamond-4X exploration well in offshore Vietnam.
The Diamond-4X well, drilled to test the hydrocarbon potential in the prospect’s clastics reservoir and fractured granite basement, was spudded on April 27, 2011 and reached its final target depth of 4,564 m on June 1, the company said in a statement.
The well tested the flow rate of 5,200 barrels per day of oil. – The Star