VOL. XLI

No. 08

23-February-1998

YEMEN

Kappa Energy Abandons Exploration Well In Block 2

The Calgary-based Kappa Energy Company Inc. - operator of Yemen's block 2 (the Al Mabarblock) - announced on 18 February that it had decided to abandon the drilling of theal-Hijera-2 exploration well which was spudded at the beginning of this month as the firstwell in the company's 1998 drilling program (MEES, 9 February). The company statedthat the interpretation of electric logs run in the well showed the...