Just six weeks after entering Guyana in a tie-up with Total (MEES, 2 August), Qatar Petroleum has made a second discovery.

London-listed Tullow Oil (operator with 60%) on 16 September announced that the Joe-1 well in 780ms water depth on Guyana’s offshore Orinduik block had hit “14ms of net oil pay in high-quality oil-bearing sandstone reservoirs of Upper Tertiary age.” (CONTINUED - 303 WORDS)