By OGJ editors
HOUSTON, Aug. 18 – Aminex PLC, Dublin, has spud the South Malak-1 well on the West Esh El Mallaha permit onshore Egypt’s Gulf of Suez.
The vertical well is projected to 9,100 ft to test Miocene and pre-Miocene sands in the Nukhul, Matulla, and Nubian formations and fractured basement. The prospect is a rifted fault block structural trap. Spot is 1.9 km southeast of Malak-1 drilled in 2009.
Photo from Odfjell Drilling
