VOL. XLI

No. 38

21-September-1998

EGYPT

Khalda Offset Plugs Two Dry Wells

The Khalda Offset concession partners - a joint venture comprising Spain's Repsol(operator 50%), the US firm Apache (40%) and the Australian firm Novus (10%) - haveannounced the plugging of two dry wells, Snferu-1 and Renpet-2X. The Snferu-1 well islocated approximately 15 kms. northeast of the recent Renpet-1 oil discovery, which testedat a rate of 850 b/d of oil (MEES, 15 June). The well is a test of the oil of the...