VOL. XXXIV

NO. 35

3-JUNE-1991

Algeria

Sonatrach Makes Oil Discovery in Western Algeria

Algeria's Sonatrach announced on 28 May a wildcat discovery in the Adrarregion in the western part of the country - some 1,600 kms. southwest ofAlgiers. The wildcat OTRA-1 found light oil (40 API) at a depth of 900 metersin a Cambrian-Ordovician basin of the Paleozoic in an area extending 20 sq. kms. Preliminary estimates put oil-in-place at 240 million barrels.

There have been few previous hydrocarbon...