The Sitra Petroleum Company (Sipetco) has made an oil & gas discovery in its Sitra C 30 1 NFW, located on the Sitra PSC in the Abu Gharadig Basin. The well tested 687 bo/d and 10.3 MMcfg/d from the Cretaceous Bahariya & Kharita formations. It has now been brought onstream. The discovery lies ~3km SE and on trend with, the Sitra 3 1 Field. Sitra C 30 1 reached 3,020m TD in Q3 2019, with operations being carried out by the Egyptian Drilling Company #51 rig. It is the second discovery made on the Sitra concession in 2019, following the Q2 2019 Sitra C18 1 ST oil discovery, also made in the Bahariya. Sipetco is a 50/50 JV between Shell and EGPC. 
The Sitra Petroleum Company (Sipetco) has made an oil & gas discovery in its Sitra C 30 1 NFW, located on the Sitra PSC in the Abu Gharadig Basin. The well tested 687 bo/d and 10.3 MMcfg/d from the Cretaceous Bahariya & Kharita formations. 