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Tuesday, September 17, 2013
Algeria’s state-run firm Sonatrach has made a gas discovery in Libya. According to Libya’s state-run firm NOC, the discovery was made on Area 95/96 in the Ghadames Basin.
Sonatrach partnered with Oil India and Indian Oil Corp. made the discovery while drilling the new field wildcat well B1-95/02. The initial production test results from the Ordovician Mamouniyat Formation show the well flowed at a rate of 10 Mmcf/d.
No further information was released.
This is the second discovery announced by NOC in the past week. The previous one was made Polish Oil and Gas Co. (POGC) Libya in the Murzuk Basin.
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