Eni finds oil in deep Western Desert well

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.

OGJ editors

May 7, 2018

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.