VOL. XLI

No. 07

16-February-1998

ALGERIA

Australia's BHP Makes New Oil Discovery In Berkine Basin

Australia's BHP Petroleum and its partner Sonatrach announced on 11 February that theBSF-1 (Bir Sif Fatima) exploration well, located in block 402a in the Berkine Basin incentral eastern Algeria, tested 1,960 b/d of 48ºAPI crude through a " choke, witha well-head pressure of 2,334psi. The well had been drilled to a total depth of 3,400 ms.and encountered hydrocarbon indications in the main...