VOL. XXXIII

NO. 33

21-MAY-1990

Syria

Marathon's Delineation Well Encounters Substantial Gas Marathon's

Ash Shaer-3 - one of two delineation wells spudded last year (MEES, 23October 1989) to determine the size of the gas reserves discovered with theCherrife-2 and Ash Shaer-1 wells in 1982 and 1985 respectively - has tested at acumulative rate of 40.3mn cu. ft./day (1.15mn cu. ms./day) of gas and 688 b/d of60 API condensate from a depth of 7,343-8,276 ft. Ash Shaer-3 is located inthe Palmyra block...