Cyclic steam pilot set at Gulf of Suez Sinai oil field

摘要

A rig is expected to arrive in February to drill development wells in Lagia oil field on the Sinai Peninsula side of Egypt's Gulf of Suez in preparation for a cyclic steamflood pilot. Oil production from Lagia field, as close as 26 km south of the producing Sudr, Matarma, and Asl onshore oil fields, is expected to start in the second quarter of 2012, said MENA Hydrocarbons Inc., Calgary.