Serbia’s NIS to start seismic hunt for oil in Romania

Serbian oil and gas company NIS said it had hired Hungarian firm Acoustic Geophysical Services to conduct 2D and 3D seismic screening at one of its four oil and gas exploration blocks in western Romania. The screening will be carried out over 545 square kilometres of the Tria concession block to help define potential reserves of oil and gas and potential sites for drilling wells, said NIS, which is majority owned by Russia’s Gazprom Neft.

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