Egypt: Kuwait Energy strikes oil


Issue 328 - 23 Jul 2016 | 1 minute read

Kuwait Energy has discovered oil with an onshore exploration well on the Abu Sennan concession. Partner Beach Energy said on 6 July the Al Jahraa SE-1X well had been drilled at a location some 6km south-east of the Al Jahraa-1 discovery well. A gas plant on the concession was commissioned in April 2015. The well reached a total depth of 3,361 metres in the Bahariya formation and will be cased and completed. The well intersected 16.4 metres of net pay within the target Abu Roash C Member, secondary Abu Roash E Member and secondary Upper Bahariya formation. Production testing is under way, Beach said.

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