VOL. XXXVIII

NO. 45

7-AUGUST-1995

Sudan

Arakis Announces New Discovery in Sudan Concession

The Vancouver-based Arakis Energy Corporation announced on 1 August that itswholly-owned subsidiary State Petroleum Corporation, which operates the Hegligconcession in the Kordofan province of Central Sudan, had tested two new oilbearing horizons in the Greater Heglig area through the drilling of twoexploration wells, the Heglig No. 6 and No. 5 wells. The Arakis statement saidthat both the Bentiu Unit I zone...