VOL. XLV

No 20

20-May-2002

OMAN

Petrogas Ramlat-2Exploratory Appraisal Well Strikes Oil

Petrogras,a private Omani company and subsidiary of the Muscat-based MB Group ofCompanies owned by Muhammad Barwani, announced on 14May that it had drilled the Ramlat-2 exploratory appraisal well in Block 7 (Butabul concession) to test a sandstone reservoir (Gharif formation) in the Ramlatfield. The well was drilled to a depth of 3,850ms using Rig-1 of MB PetroleumServices. Ramlat-2 found the Gharif sandstone...