VOL. XL

No. 30

28-July-1997

ALGERIA

Cepsa Increases Production From RKF Field To 20,000 B/D

Algeria's Sonatrach and the Spanish oil firm Cepsa announced on 23 July that they haveincreased production from the Rhourde El Khrouf (RKF) oilfield (Block 406A) to a sustainedlevel of 20,000 b/d, compared to the previous 8,000 b/d. The increase has taken place as aresult of the permission given by the Algerian authorities to Cepsa to exploit all 10wells in the field - seven producing and three gas...