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Marathon Finds More Gas in Homs 

Block Marathon's third wildcat - Ash-Shaer No. 1l - in the Homs block, about 150 kms. northeast of Damascus, has been completed as a gas producer. The well, on which two drillstem tests were conducted, was taken down to a total depth of 9,060 ft. One test on the interval 8,697-8,789 ft. yielded 15.35mr. cu. ft./day of natural gas and 304 b/d of 62° API condensate, and the other on the interval 8,025-8,294 ft. yielded 3.19mn cu.ft./day of...