Middle East Economic Survey

VOL. XLVII

No 43

25-October-2004

LIBYA

Wintershall Inaugurates New Jakhira Field Well, Updates Libyan Operations

Germanys Wintershall announced on 15 October it had commenced oil production from the A11-96 well at its Jakhira oilfield in Block NC-96 of the Sirte Basin. The inauguration ceremony for the well, which extends the Jakhira field, was attended by Libyan Prime Minister Shukri Ghanem and German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder. The A11-96 well was drilled in 2004 as...