In Q4 2019, the Obaiyed Petroleum Company (Opetco) abandoned its Obaiyed J 13 ST1 (OBA J 13 ST1) exploration well, having failed to encounter hydrocarbons in the objective Cretaceous Alam El Bueib Formation. The well was drilled on the West Obaiyed development lease (DL) of the Obaiyed PSC, located in the Matruh Basin. It reached 3,574m TD, with operations being carried out by the Egyptian Drilling Company #48 rig. OBA J 13 ST1 is an assumed re-entry and sidetrack of the OBA J 13 1 near-field exploration well, originally drilled November 2014-January 2015. It was suspended with gas shows in the Jurassic Lower Safa sandstones, after reaching 4,148m TD. The near-field prospect is understood to be a satellite structure to the Obaiyed and Obaiyed Deep gas & condensate fields, located immediately to the east. They were discovered in the Jurassic Safa Member in 1992, with the play-opening discovery proving up the prospectivity of the Safa interval in the Western Desert. The complex has an estimated 4 Tcf GIIP. The Obaiyed concession is operated by Opetco, a 50/50 JV between Shell and EGPC. 
Obaiyed J 13 ST1 (OBA J 13 ST1)  having failed to encounter hydrocarbons in the objective Cretaceous Alam El Bueib Formation.