Dossor North West bites dust for Max

Drill disappointment: Max Petroleum walks away empty handed from Dossor North West

London-listed Max Petroleum has said it will plug and abandon its Dossor North West 1 well after the Kazakh probe failed to yield any producible hydrocarbons.

The Kazakh-focused explorer drilled the Block E probe, spud earlier this month with the Zhanros rig, to a total depth of 1334 metres.

The company originally pencilled in Dossor North West in January along with fellow Block E post-salt prospects Eskene North and Baichonas West on foot of analysis of new 3D seismic data acquired in 2011.

Dossor North West had been thought to hold mean potential oil resources of 7 million barrels.

Earlier this month, Max Petroleum said it had struck 13 metres of net pay over a 20-metre interval in a Jurassic formation with…

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