VOL. XXXIX

No. 26

25-March-1996

EGYPT

Amoco/IEOC Discovery Yields Egypt's Highest Gas Flow Rate To Date

Amoco and the Agip subsidiary International Egyptian Oil Company (IEOC) have made a major gas discovery in the 2,800-sq. km. Ras al-Barr concession in Egypt's Nile Delta offshore. In a press release issued in Cairo on 19 March, Amoco - operator of the 50/50 joint venture with IEOC - said that the discovery well, Ha'py-1, encountered 260 ft. of gross gas pay in three zones between 5,180...