VOL. XLI

No. 07

16-February-1998

LIBYA

Red Sea Oil And Sands Petroleum Announce Discovery Of En Naga North Oil Field

The Vancouver-based Red Sea Oil (RSO) corporation and its partner Sands Petroleum AB ofStockholm announced on 11 February that they had completed a 40-day test program in theB1-NC-177 well in the Sirte Basin, onshore Libya (MEES, 26 January). The final teston the Facha formation flowed at 728 b/d of 42º API oil on natural flow. Mechanicalproblems precluded the running of an...