26 April 2024
Interoil halts Wahoo drilling in PNG amid safety concerns
Publication date: 16 July 2014
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Interoil’s Wahoo-1 well has been forced to a halt after pressures 50% higher than in its large Antelope discovery were encountered in Papua New Guinea (PNG). The company said continuing would pose an “unacceptable safety risk to people and the rig” and permission had been received from the PNG energy ministry to suspend the wel