Offshore staff

LONDON, UK --EnCore Oil expects to participate in 12 wells in northwest Europe over the next 18 months.

The program should start this month with a Perenco-operated exploratory well on the Cirrus prospect in UK block 48/22b-F, and an appraisal well operated by Island Oil and Gas on Old Head of Kinsale in Ireland's Celtic Sea.

Next up are another Island appraisal well on the 1987 Schull discovery (also off Ireland), followed by wells on Breagh, Barbarossa, and Catcher 28/9c in the UK sector. Endeavour also will figure in development drilling on the Amstel field in the Dutch North Sea.

5/7/2007