THE AUSTRALIAN: Shell and Chevron boldly go into the abyss together
Wednesday July 06, 2005
Nigel Wilson, Energy writer
CHEVRON and Shell Australia have joined forces in a bold, new program to explore the deep-water Exmouth Plateau west of the Greater Gorgon gas discoveries in the Indian Ocean.
For Shell, the program marks its return to exploration in Australia after an absence of about a decade.
Chevron and Shell successfully bid for the exploration rights to four deep-water blocks in the Carnarvon Basin.
Chevron is the operator for the 50-50 partnership which bid a three-year work program, including seismic reprocessing, more than 3000km of two-dimensional seismic, 3500km of three-dimensional seismic and the drilling of two exploration wells.