VOL. XLII

No 40

4-October-1999

UAE

Crescent Petroleum/Atlantis Announce Significant Gas Find AtSharjah-2 Well

Sharjah-based Crescent Petroleum and its partner AtlantisHolding Norway AS announced on 29 September that significant quantities ofhydrocarbons had been discovered at the offshore Sharjah-2 well, where drillingbegan in July (MEES, 12 July). A statement issued by Crescent, theoperator, said that the well had been drilled to a total depth of 15,232 ft.and that it tested gas from the Upper...