VOL. XXXV

NO. 39

29-JUNE-1992

Tunisia

Marathon Tests Successful Exploration Well in Offshore Zarat Concession

The US firm Marathon, a unit of USX Corporation, announced on 25 June thatits Zarat No. 1 discovery well tested at a combined daily rate of 17.5mn cu. ft.of natural gas and 1,498 barrels of liquid hydrocarbons. The well is located in295 ft. of water about 66 miles northeast of Marathon's Ezzaouia field insouthern Tunisia. Marathon conducted two drill stem tests from a grosshydrocarbon...