Middle East Economic Survey

VOL. XLVIII

No 1

3-January-2005

ALGERIA

First Calgary Tests LEW-1 Exploration Well On Block 405B

Canadas First Calgary Petroleums announced on 22 December it had successfully tested the LEW-1 exploration well located approximately 7km northwest of the MZLS-1 well on its 100%-held Ledjmet Block 405b in Algeria. Production testing of the well resulted in 7,536 b/d of 51 API oil and 13.6mn cfd of gas normalized to a flowing bottom hole pressure of 2,000psi. The...