Drilling On Jabiru Well Abandoned

BHP Petroleum admitted yesterday that the Jabiru 5 well, being drilled to help exploit the new 15,000 barrel-a-day oilfield in the Timor Sea, had been abandoned on Wednesday because of drilling difficulties. The news is a setback for the drilling program, since it already had gone down more

Rangers' Search Fails To Find Carcass Of Killer Crocodile

DARWIN: Rangers have been unable to find the carcass of a crocodile shot after it killed a man in Kakadu National Park on Tuesday. Mr Kerry McLoughlin, 40, of Jabiru, a storeman at the Ranger uranium mine, was taken while wading over a causeway across the East Alligator River during a fi

Tourists See Man Killed By Crocodile

DARWIN: Horrified tourists watched helplessly yesterday as a large crocodile - a local tourist attraction - killed a fisherman at the East Alligator River on the border between Kakadu National Park and Arnhem Land. A Jabiru man, 40, was taken by the crocodile at about 1.30 pm when he slipp