By OGJ editors
HOUSTON, Mar. 8 -- ENI SPA's Tunisian unit Agip Tunisia BV, Tunis, has commenced oil production from the Hawa-1 exploration well on the Borj el Khadra production concession in southern Tunisia, achieving 9,000 b/d.
The well, spudded on Sept. 18, 2003, encountered 46 m of net oil pay and 9 m of net gas pay in Paleozoic formations at 3,300 m (OGJ Online, Dec. 16, 2003). These zones are equivalent to productive zones in the Acacus formation in the nearby producing Adam field, discovered in 2002.
The producing well has been tied in via 13 km of newly laid 8-in. pipeline to existing processing facilities at Oued Zar field, which Agip also operates.
Participants in the Adam concession are operator Agip 17.5%, ENI Tunisia BEK 17.5%, Tunisa's state oil company ETP (L'Enterprise Tunisienne d'Activites Petrolieres) 30%, Pioneer Natural Resources Co. 28%, and Paladin Expro Ltd. 7%.
The companies plan further drilling this year, said partner Paladin Expro.
