ALGERIA
 
Algeria: Repsol Find
 
Spain’s Repsol has struck 8.3mn cfd of gas with the second well of a five-well exploration program on its South-East Illizi block. The first well hit 3.7mn cfd at a depth of 1,070ms in the Ordovician shale reservoir (MEES, 16 November 2012); the latest hit a 50mn gas column and was drilled to a total depth of 1,510ms.
The large concession, acquired via 2009 bidding contains several former oil and gas discoveries and lies between...