VOL. XL

No. 15

14-April-1997

QATAR

Elf Aquitaine Raises Production From Al Khalij Field

Elf Aquitaine, operator of Qatar's offshore al-Khalij oilfield inBlock No. 6, announced on 3 April that a second well has been commissioned and that theoutput of the field, which was running at 6,000 b/d, has now risen to 10,000 b/d. Theal-Khalij 29ァ API crude is transported via a 12-inch submarine pipeline linking theproduction facilities in the field to Halul island where it is blended with Qatar...