Eni SPA reports an oil discovery with its first well exploring deep sequences of the Faghur basin in Egypt’s Western Desert.
It has put the well, SWM A-2X, on production at the rate of 2,300 b/d of 32° gravity oil and 400 Mscfd of associated natural gas from completions in Carboniferous Dessouky sandstone.
The well, drilled to 5,090 m TD, also encountered hydrocarbon pay in Cretaceous Alam El Bueib sandstone.
It’s on the Southwest Meleiha license 103 km north of the Siwa oasis. Eni holds 100% interest in the license through its Egyptian subsidiary.
It plans to further appraise the A2-X discovery and drill other prospects nearby.
