Eni has made an oil discovery in its South West Meleiha A 2X ST1 (SWM A 2X ST1) NFW, located on the South West Meleiha PSC in the Faghur Basin. The well encountered 18m of 32deg API oil in its primary target the Carboniferous Desouqy Formation, which tested at 2,300 bo/d and 0.4 MMcfg/d. SWM A 2X ST1 also encountered hydrocarbons in the Cretaceous Alam El Bueib 3D sandstones. The well was spudded on 21 December 2017 and drilled to a TD of 5,090m. Operations were carried out using the Egyptian Drilling Company #41 rig. SWM A 2X ST1 is a re-drill of the SWM 2X NFW, which was junked in early December 2017. SWM 2X was originally spudded on 18 November 2017 and had a PTD of 2,750m. The company's first well on the licence, Mandees Central 1X, was P&A dry in February 2017 (TD 4,829m). The discovery is the first made by Eni in the Palaeozoic in the Basin. The company was awarded the PSC for the block in January 2015, following the EGPC International 2013 Bid Round. Eni operates South West Meleiha with 100% equity.
Egypt, Meleiha (Dev)