Middle East Economic Survey

VOL. LIII

No 25

21-Jun-2010

TUNISIA

OMV Announces Seventh Consecutive Tunisia Discovery

OMV and state firm Entreprise Tunisienne dActivités Pétrolières (ETAP) have made a seventh consecutive discovery on the Nawara production concession in southern Tunisia, the Austrian firm said on 16 June. The Ritma-1 well was drilled to a depth of 4,035ms and encountered a net hydrocarbon pay of 28ms in stacked sandstones of the Acacus and Tannezuft formations. The well is the third...