Exxon Mobil Corp. (NYSE:XOM) will drill a well off Cyprus in January in pursuit of natural gas, a senior executive told Reuters on Thursday. “We’ve spent the last two years collecting very detailed, three dimensional seismic data … We’ve identified several large prospects, and the next stage is to bring in a drilling rig and to test those,” said John Ardill, Vice-president for global exploration at ExxonMobil. “We’ll spud our first well in mid-January, so we are very excited about that,” he told a conference in Nicosia. Back in July, China-based…
