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...
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