Bayfield, an oil and gas explorer with interests in the Caribbean, appears to have made a decent find off the south east coast of Trinidad.
The EG8 well dug in the Galeota Licence area has "showed" oil and gas. Tests indicate that the vertical thickness of the hydrocarbon-bearing sands are 107 metres gas and 21 metres oil.
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