{"id":461,"date":"1993-08-27T18:53:08","date_gmt":"1993-08-27T18:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brucedale.net\/?p=461"},"modified":"2013-12-27T18:53:31","modified_gmt":"2013-12-27T18:53:31","slug":"murzuq-basin-libya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brucedale.net\/?p=461","title":{"rendered":"Murzuq Basin, Libya."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NC-174 Block, is located in the southwestern Libyan desert about 465 miles (800 km) south of Tripoli, Libya.<br \/>\nLASMO had entered Libya in 1990 with the Korean consortium named PEDCO and carried out the initial exploration programme of geological fieldwork, 2500 km of seismic acquisition and the drilling of four wildcat wells that led to two oil discoveries in 1993-94.<br \/>\nThis initial success ensured the viability of further exploration in the area and therefore the pursuit of the Elephant Prospect. The LASMO-PEDCO exploration team had identified the Elephant feature on its extensive seismic database and negotiated with the Libyan NOC to extend the concession area to include the entire prospect.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brucedale.net\/?attachment_id=463\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-463\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brucedale.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/nc174_02.png\" alt=\"nc174_02\" width=\"640\" height=\"419\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-463\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brucedale.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/nc174_02.png 640w, https:\/\/www.brucedale.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/nc174_02-100x65.png 100w, https:\/\/www.brucedale.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/nc174_02-300x196.png 300w, https:\/\/www.brucedale.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/nc174_02-50x32.png 50w, https:\/\/www.brucedale.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/nc174_02-624x408.png 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NC-174 Block, is located in the southwestern Libyan desert about 465 miles (800 km) south of Tripoli, Libya. LASMO had entered Libya in 1990 with the Korean consortium named PEDCO and carried out the initial exploration programme of geological fieldwork, 2500 km of seismic acquisition and the drilling of four wildcat wells that led [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":462,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brucedale.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brucedale.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brucedale.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brucedale.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brucedale.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=461"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.brucedale.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":464,"href":"https:\/\/www.brucedale.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461\/revisions\/464"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brucedale.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brucedale.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brucedale.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brucedale.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}