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Licence Details
Area: 162.3 km2
Status: In August 2011 the Ministry of Economic Development in Italy withdrew Assigned Permit D148 DR-CS from the application process to full permit status. This is in compliance with the environmental decree 128/1210 enacted in June 2010 which prevents oil and gas activity within 5 nautical miles of the Italian coast. Sound Oil is considering appealing against this decision through the relevant authority.
Effective date: N/A
Work Commitment: N/A
Term: N/A
Interests:
Apennine Energy (Operator) 100.00%
Permit Area History
D148 DR-CS is located in the Gulf of Toranto in the south of Italy. The area falls within the offshore Brandano Basin – a foredeep trough of the Southern Apennines. The main plays are for biogenic gas in the Pliocene sands and thermogenic gas in the Mio-Cretaceous carbonate substratum.
The permit area was previously explored as the ex-D.R 12-AG, D.R67-FI and
D.R70-EM permits by Agip, Fina and Edison Gas in the 1970s to 1990s. Livia-1 (Agip,1980) was drilled to explore Pliocene turbidites beneath the allochthonous front and Metapontum-1 (Fina,1990) was drilled to test a Pliocene seismic flat event. Both wells were dry. Subsequently, Edison Gas mapped a number of seismic anomalies interpreted to be Pliocene turbidites but none were drilled.
Recent Permit Activity
Apennine Energy was originally assigned the permit in 2009. To date only G&G data studies have been undertaken on the licence.
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