Middle East Economic Survey

VOL. XLVIII

No 1

3-January-2005

YEMEN

Calvalley Spuds Yemen Appraisal Well, Nexen Plans Full Block 51 Production

Canadas Calvalley said on 17 December that it had spudded the Hiswah-3 appraisal well in Block 9, where it is operator. Hiswah-3 is the first of three planned appraisal wells, each of which will be comprised of a vertical wellbore to gather reservoir data and a horizontal sidetrack to test the productive capability of the fractured limestone reservoirs of the...