TAG Oil Ltd. V.TAO

Alternate Symbol(s): TAOIF

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TAG Oil Ltd. is an international oil and gas exploration company with a focus on operations and opportunities in the Middle East and North Africa. It holds an interest in the Badr Oil Field (BED-1), a 26,000-acre concession located in the Western Desert, Egypt, through a production services agreement (the PSA) with Badr Petroleum Company (BPCO). It is focused on BED-1 the re-completion and evaluation operations of the BED 1-7 vertical well. These initial operations are part of its phase I development program of Abu Roash F (ARF) reservoir in BED-1. The BED 1-7 well started oil production from the ARF reservoir. Its Field Development Plan (FDP), consisting of drilling 20 horizontal wells to be completed with multi-stage fracture stimulation, is focused on the east central part of the BED-1 concession area and contains OIIP P50 volumes of 178.3 million barrels and mean volumes of 179.0 million barrels. Its subsidiaries include TAG Energy International Ltd., CX Oil Limited, and others.

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Post by kanerfalkon Feb 12, 2014 3:08pm

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Oil-search forum suggested

MATHEW GROCOTT

Last updated 12:00 12/02/2014

A stakeholder group could be formed in Tararua as interest in the district's potential oil reserves increases.

An application has been made by Schlumberger Seaco, which already operates in Taranaki, to prospect for oil off the Tararua coast.

This follows the drilling of an exploratory well by Tag Oil last summer near Dannevirke.

Staff from New Zealand Petroleum and Minerals told a meeting of Horizons Regional Council's strategy and policy committee yesterday that Tag was expected to dig a second well this year.

They pitched the idea of a regional stakeholder forum covering Tararua and Hawke's Bay and including local authorities, conservationists, landowners, farmers and potentially industry.

NZPAM regional relationships manager Jonathan Gibbard said the forum would look to produce a report after about 12 months, outlining the problems and solutions related to oil and gas operations in their area.

NZPAM is the government agency that approves or declines applications to prospect for or to extract oil or minerals.

Cr Murray Guy raised concerns about the cost of the council being involved in the stakeholders forum, particularly if new research would have to be conducted to inform its findings.

Mr Gibbard said any costs to the council would likely be administrative and that rather than conducting research as part of the forum the group could conclude in its report that further research was required.

The council was to debate the idea during the public excluded section of yesterday's meeting.

During the public portion councillors did receive a report on the Schlumberger application which covers more than 50,000 square kilometres of the Pacific Ocean from Hawke's Bay to east of the top of the South Island.

The waters off the Tararua coast are at the centre of this area.

If NZPAM approves the application Schlumberger will be able to do seismic and aerial surveys and desktop studies.

Any work that affects the environment would require either a resource consent or approval from the Environmental Protection Agency.