Middle East Economic Survey

VOL. XLVII

No 45

8-November-2004

EGYPT

Melrose Resources Updates South Batra Field Drilling Results

UK-based Melrose Resources has updated its exploration and appraisal wells on the South Batra field area, onshore Nile Delta. Melrose said the South Batra-4 appraisal well was spudded on 18 July and reached a total depth of 12,414ft in the Miocene. Melrose said a 120ft gross section of good quality, gas bearing reservoir was encountered in the Abu Madi target zone and...