By the OGJ Online Staff
HOUSTON, Jan. 4 -- Apache Corp.'s Ozoris-1X wildcat in the Western Desert of Egypt found both oil and gas.
The well, on Apache's Khalda concession, flowed 2,504 b/d of 38.5°-gravity oil and 750 Mcfd of gas from a 1-in. choke at 161 psi of flowing pressure from one of three zones.
The tested zone, the Cretaceous Alam el Bueib 3D sand, is a prolific producing horizon at Khalda Ridge, 12 miles east of Ozoris-1X.
The discovery is 6 miles from the nearest well bore and 9 miles from the nearest field on the 2-million-acre concession. Apache owns a 100% contractors' interest in Khalda.
"The pay zone tested was more than 1,500 ft downdip from the crest of the Khalda Ridge, one of the largest hydrocarbon accumulations in the Western Desert, yet still had good porosity and permeability," said Apache Pres. and CEO G. Steven Farris. "And we still have another 65 ft of potential pay to test in two additional uphole zones."
