VOL. XXXIX

No. 16

15-January-1996

EGYPT

Khalda Petroleum Makes Two New Discoveries In Western Desert

Khalda Petroleum - 50% Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation, 25% Repsol (operator), 20% Phoenix and 5% Samsung - has made two new discoveries in the Khalda concession in Egypt's Western Desert. The first was an oil discovery made with the Southeast Salam-1 well that was drilled to a total depth of 10,075 ft. During tests, the well produced 1,855 b/d of 38ー API crude oil and 2.9mn...