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Article: ABU DHABI - Exploration.
- Article from:
- APS Review Oil Market Trends
- Article date:
- January 8, 2001
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Virtually the whole of Abu Dhabi and most of its territorial waters have been surveyed by ADNOC and its partners. Onshore acreage licenced for exploration since 1980 has decreased substantially - to about 60,400 sq km in 1984, 51,600 in 1986, 43,700 in 1987, and 41,800 in 1988. It increased in 1989 when ADNOC undertook a new programme to include deep drilling.
Offshore, where prospectivity is equally as important to ADNOC, acreages licenced for exploration rose from about 25,400 sq km in 1984 to about 30,000 sq km in the first quarter of 1990, when a new Japanese entity was formed (ADOC-Ga) to develop the 40 sq km Neewat Al Ghalan structure near Mubarraz island. ...
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700+ words
...Abu Dhabi has an area of 67,340 sq km full of hydrocarbon resources ... around $6 bn of investment. Abu Dhabi is the only UAE emirate with ... estimated area of 1,200 sq km, nearly 16 times the area of Abu Dhabi city. It has 389 wells ...
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