Middle East Economic Survey

VOL. LIV

No 14

1-Apr-2011

EGYPT

Statoil Completes Kiwi Well In El Dabaa License

Norways Statoil on 28 March announced that an exploration well spudded last November in the Kiwi prospect in the El Dabaa license offshore Egypt had been completed and that it is dry. The license is located in Block 9, which lies west of the Nile Delta. The well was drilled in a water depth of 2,700ms using the Discoverer Americas drillship. Statoil said extensive logging had been...