Middle East Economic Survey

VOL. LII

No 49

7-Dec-2009

EGYPT

NPC Announces Production Boost At Egypts Shukheir Bay Field

National Petroleum Company (NPC), the upstream oil and gas arm of Citadel Capital, on 3 December announced that crude oil production at the Shukheir Bay-5 ST well had been increased to 1,600 b/d. The well, drilled in June 2006, had previously been producing at a stabilized rate of 60 b/d on artificial lift from one set of perforations in the Upper Rudeis sandstone. NPC said in a...