VOL. XXXV

NO. 14

6-JANUARY-1992

Tunisia

Disappointing Results for Marathon in Belli-2 Well

The US firm Marathon, a unit of USX Corporation, encountered only a smallflow of oil in its Tunisian exploratory Belli-2 well in the Cap Bon permit,which does not justify commerical development. Last June, Marathon made an interesting discovery in its adjacent Grombalia permit with a flow of 6,800b/d of 48 API crude oil from its Belli-1 exploratory well (MEES, 23 October1991). Since then the US firm has...