VOL. XLVI

No 8

24-February-2003

EGYPT

Melrose Tests Gas/Condensate From South Batra Exploration Well

UK-based Melrose Resources announced on 17 February that its South Batra exploration well on the Nile Delta al-Mansoura prospect tested at rates from 17.8mn cf/d to 31.2mn cf/d and up to 506 b/d of condensate (separator restricted). Wireline logs indicated 151ft of gross pay in Level III of the late Miocene Abu Madi formation and initial estimates of reserves are 150bn cu ft. The company said that...