VOL. XLI

No. 13

30-March-1998

YEMEN

Kappa Energy Abandons Second Exploration Well In Block No. 2

Calgary-based Kappa Energy Company Inc. - operator of Yemen's Block No. 2 (the Al Mabarblock) - announced on 23 March that it has decided to abandon the drilling of its secondexploration well, the South al-Mabar-1, which was spudded in early March. Last February,Kappa abandoned the first exploration well - al-Hijera-2 - following the interpretation ofelectric logs which showed that the target...