VOL. XLII

No. 09

1-March-1999

KUWAIT

Encouraging Results For Appraisal Well In Kar'a Al-MaruOilfield

The Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC) has announced"encouraging" results from an appraisal well drilled in the Kar'aal-Maru oilfield in western Kuwait. A KPC statement said that the well Kar'aal-Maru No. 2 had tested at a rate of around 1,800 b/d of high-quality lightcrude. The discovery well at the field Kar'a al-Maru No. 1 was drilled in1995, yielding light crude with a gravity of 49 API...