VOL. XLI

No. 30

27-July-1998

TUNISIA

First Calgary Abandons Bazma Well Site

The Canadian company First Calgary Petroleums Ltd. (FCP) announced on 23 July that ithad abandoned the BZM-1 well in the Bazma permit in central Tunisia. The well reached atotal depth of 4,109 ms. A company statement said the well was targeting the Lower PermianReef, but a vertical seismic profile, biostratigraphic analysis and logs confirmed onlyMiddle Permian carbonates in a reef-shaped structure. The well encountered...