{"id":449290,"date":"2011-06-28T11:16:42","date_gmt":"2011-06-28T11:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/06\/28\/dno-international-abandoning-oil-exploration\/"},"modified":"2011-06-28T11:16:42","modified_gmt":"2011-06-28T11:16:42","slug":"dno-international-abandoning-oil-exploration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/28\/dno-international-abandoning-oil-exploration\/","title":{"rendered":"DNO International Abandoning Oil Exploration"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"23.5171523423\">\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.poptel.org.uk\/mozambique-news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/img\/static\/publishers\/minibanners\/aim180.jpg\" alt=\"Agencia de Informacao de Mocambique (Maputo)\" title=\"Visit Agencia de Informacao de Mocambique (Maputo)\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>24 June 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>Maputo \u2014 The Norwegian group Det Norske Olse-Selskap (DNO International) is abandoning oil and gas exploration in the Inhaminga block, in the central Mozambican province of Sofala.<\/p>\n<p>According to a source in the Mozambican National Hydrocarbon Company (ENH), DNO is giving up because none of the four wells it drilled turned up any finds of hydrocarbons in commercially viable amounts.<\/p>\n<p>DNO-International invested about 30 million US dollars in the exploration. The drilling found some natural gas, but not in significant quantities.<\/p>\n<p>The Inhaminga block is onshore and covers a vast area of Sofala, including the districts of Cheringoma, Caia, Gorongosa and Maringue.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier work by DNO in the districts of Dondo and Muanza, also in Sofala, included aero-magnetic surveys, the acquisition of 2D seismic studies, geochemical sampling, and the opening of three wells. But here too the results were negative.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<fieldset>\n<legend align=\"center\"><strong>More News on allAfrica.com<\/strong><\/legend>\n<\/fieldset>\n<p>AllAfrica &#8211; All the Time<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>View article:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201106280639.html\" title=\"DNO International Abandoning Oil Exploration\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DNO International Abandoning Oil Exploration<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 24 June 2011 Maputo \u2014 The Norwegian group Det Norske Olse-Selskap (DNO International) is abandoning oil and gas exploration in the Inhaminga block, in the central Mozambican province of Sofala. According to a source in the Mozambican National Hydrocarbon Company (ENH), DNO is giving up because none of the four wells it drilled turned up any finds of hydrocarbons in commercially viable amounts. DNO-International invested about 30 million US dollars in the exploration<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":430230,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-449290","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>DNO International Abandoning Oil Exploration - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/28\/dno-international-abandoning-oil-exploration\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"DNO International Abandoning Oil Exploration - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"24 June 2011 Maputo \u2014 The Norwegian group Det Norske Olse-Selskap (DNO International) is abandoning oil and gas exploration in the Inhaminga block, in the central Mozambican province of Sofala. 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