Egypt: Nile Delta onshore Cretaceous oil target set
Melrose Resources PLC plans to drill a 3D seismic prospect in the underexplored Cretaceous oil play in Egypt’s onshore Nile Delta in the fourth quarter of 2011.
Melrose Resources PLC plans to drill a 3D seismic prospect in the underexplored Cretaceous oil play in Egypt’s onshore Nile Delta in the fourth quarter of 2011.
Al Hajarisah is one prospect the company identified on the Southeast Mansoura concession among multiple oil prospects and leads.
Alan Petzet is Chief Editor-Exploration of Oil & Gas Journal in Houston. He is editor of the Weekly E&D Newsletter, emailed to OGJ subscribers, and a regular contributor to the OGJ Online subscriber website.
Petzet joined OGJ in 1981 after 13 years in the Tulsa World business-oil department. He was named OGJ Exploration Editor in 1990. A native of Tulsa, he has a BA in journalism from the University of Tulsa.
