The planned drilling of a well on the Zag block in - most probably - occupied Western Sahara has now been set to first half of 2014.
"I have no problem in stating, in retrospect, that it might have been a bad idea to take this assignment”, CEO of seismic services firm Spectrum ASA told media today. Now, Irish oil minor San Leon has to find another subcontractor to process the geological data they collect from the occupied territory in violation of international law.
Email to Longreach Oil and Gas Ltd, sent 8 July 2011.
UK-Irish oil minors will start seismic surveys in occupied Western Sahara in June 2011.