In late February 2020, Khalda Petroleum Co (Khalda) successfully tested the outpost well Barakat Deep 2 at the Barakat Deep 1 discovery, Khalda Offset (New) A-West block, Northern Egypt Basin.  The well flowed oil and gas presumably from the Lower Cretaceous Alam El Bueb Member of the Burg El Arab Formation. It was spudded on 29 November 2019 with the EDC-54 Land rig and drilled to a TD of 4,420 m in the D Unit of the Middle Cambrian-Middle Ordovician Shifah Formation.  The Barakat Deep 1 discovery was made in late October 2019 by Khalda after the new field wildcat Barakat Deep 1 tested oil in the Burg El Arab Formation.  The Khalda Offset (New) A-West block is a 3,271-sq-km acreage awarded to Khalda in January 1998. It includes the Nakhaw NW 1 oil field discovered in 2002.  Khalda is a JV between EGPC (50%), Apache (33.5%) and Sinopec (16.5%).
Barakat Deep 2 appr. (Khalda 100% = JV between EGPC 50%, Apache 33.5%, Sinopec 16.5%) in Khalda Offset (New) A-West block, successfully tested the Alam El Bueb. TD=4420m (Shifah fm).