VOL. XXXIX

No. 19

5-February-1996

TUNISIA

New Production Platform Put In Service In Tunisia's Ashtart Field

The Tunisian oil exploration company Serept, a 50-50 joint company owned by Elf Aquitaine and Tunisia's state-owned oil company ETAP, has put a new production platform into service in the Ashtart field. The new platform, ASPF3, corresponds to the third phase of development for Ashtart, which was discovered in 1971 and went into production 1974. Eight new wells are to be drilled in...