By OGJ editors
HOUSTON, July 30 – AuDAX Resources Ltd., Perth, invited 15 drilling contractors to bid to drill the Sambuca prospect in the Sicily Channel off Tunisia in the first half of 2010 using a semisubmersible rig.
Sambuca is in the contiguous G.R15.PU exploration permit northwest of Pantelleria Island off Italy and the Kerkouane permit off Tunisia. It appears to be one of the largest undrilled structures in the Mediterranean Sea with a mean unrisked potential of 270 million boe recoverable.
The prospect covers 60 sq km in 400 m of water in the Pelagian basin north of Tazerka oil and gas field. Main objective is the Miocene Birsa sandstone at 1,440 m, and other targets are Miocene Ain Grab and Cretaceous Abiod as deep as 2,500 m.
