VOL. XL

No. 19

12-May-1997

ALGERIA

LL&E Announces Fifth Successive DiscoveryIn Ghadames Basin Block 405

The New Orleans-based Louisiana Land and Exploration Company (LL&E)announced on 5 May that its subsidiary LL&E Algeria, Sonatrach and Canada's Talisman Energyhave successfully tested the MLN-3 exploration well on block 405 in the Ghadames Basin, identifying a newand separate hydrocarbon accumulation with a low gas/oil ratio. The well, which is locatedapproximately 5 kms....