China

By OGJ editors
HOUSTON, Apr. 19 – CNOOC Ltd. has an oil discovery at its Penglai 9-1-2 well on the Miaoxibei uplift in eastern Bohai Bay off China.

The well, drilled to 1,505 m in 29 m of water, penetrated a combined 77 m of oil pay zones and a 158-m fractured zone of buried hill. It flowed 540 b/d of oil on a drillstem test of three layers.