It is accelerating the ramp development and exploration drilling at the zone and is incorporating the results into a study on future phased expansion.

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In either zone, the drilling company can also ask the government for a waiver.

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In a lot of wells I saw that the zone was taking drilling mud, soaking it up and leaving a layer of mud cake across a permeable interval of the wellbore.

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