7th Mar 2005 07:02
Roc Oil Company Limited07 March 2005 7 March 2005 ROC OIL COMPANY LIMITED STOCK EXCHANGE RELEASE DRILLING ACTIVITY UPDATE: CLIFF HEAD-6 Roc Oil (WA) Pty Limited, Operator for and on behalf of the WA-286-P JointVenture, advised that the Cliff Head-6 well ("CH-6") was drilled to a depth of1,368 metres measured depth on 5 March 2005 at which time coring operations werecommenced. The preliminary estimate of top of the reservoir has been interpretedto be at 1,373 metres measured depth, based on shows, providing a gross verticalreservoir section of approximately 70 metres above the field wide oil watercontact. The reservoir section will be better defined by open hole logging whichis planned for the well after coring has been completed and the well has beendrilled to the planned total depth of 1,497 metres. The current operation on CH-6 at 0600 on 7 March 2005 was preparing to cut core#3 at a depth of 1,400 metres. The WA-286-P Joint Venture comprises: Equity Roc Oil (WA) Pty Ltd (Operator).........................37.5% AWE Oil (Western Australia) Pty Ltd ....................27.5% Wandoo Petroleum Pty Ltd................................24.0% Voyager (PB) Limited.....................................6.0% CIECO Exploration and Production (Australia) Pty Ltd ....5.0% Bruce Clement For further information please contact:Chief Operating Officer Dr John Doran on Tel: +61-2-8356-2000 Fax: +61-2-9380-2635 Email: [email protected] Or visit ROC's website: www.rocoil.com.au Dr Kevin Hird General Manager Business Development Tel: +44 (0)207 586 7935 Fax: +44 (0)207 722 3919 Email: [email protected] Nick Lambert Bell Pottinger Corporate & Financial Tel: +44 (0)207 861 3232 This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock ExchangeRelated Shares:
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