Australian: TASMANIA may be on the verge of a multi-billion-dollar onshore oil and gas boom. US exploration company Empire Energy Corporation yesterday unveiled a $31 million program to drill up to eight test wells at key locations in an exploration lease covering 23 per cent of the state. It also released an independent expert’s prediction that the lease could hold between 67million and 145million barrels of oil and between 344billion and 799billion cubic feet of natural gas. The …