VOL. XLI

No. 17

27-April-1998

EGYPT

Odyssey Begins Evaluation Of Qantara Block

Odyssey Petroleum Corporation of Canada announced in Calgary on 23 April that, inconjunction with its joint venture partner Merlon Petroleum Company, it has commencedevaluation of the 150-sq. km. onshore Qantara concession (block J) on the Suez Canal. LastFebruary, Odyssey announced that the Board of Directors of the Egyptian General PetroleumCorporation (EGPC) awarded it and the Houston-based Merlon Petroleum three...