Recent gas and condensate discoveries highlight prolific opportunities in Egypt's Western Desert

摘要

Apache Corporation said two recent hydrocarbon discoveries illustrate the continuing reserve upside to be found across the company's 27,500 km2 in Egypt's Western Desert. The Herunefer-lX discovery, located in the Matruh Basin in the eastern portion of Khalda Offset Concession, encountered pay in the Alamein, Alam El Buieb-6 (AEB), Masajid, Upper Safa and Lower Safa formations. Tests from the Lower Safa and Upper Safa intervals flowed at a combined rate of 49 million ft3 (1.4 million m3) of gas and 7700 b of condensate per day. The estimated cost to drill and complete the well was $ 6 million.