In May 2017, Khalda Petroleum suspended the Herunefer West 1 exploration well in the Khalda Offset-A East block after the well yielded 1,694 bo/d from the Jurassic Safa Member. The well was spudded on 16 February 2017 with the SinoTharwaâs âST-4â land rig and drilled to a TD of 4,663 m in the Lower Jurassic Qattara formation.   The main targets were the Safa Member and the Masajid formation. Â The planned TD was 4,572 m.  Khalda Petroleum Co is a JV between the EGPC (50%), Apache Oil Egypt (33.5%) and Sinopec IP Corp (16.5%).  Background information  Herunefer is a gas & condensate field located in the Northern Egypt Basin, onshore Egypt. On 6 May 2014, Apache Corporation announced that the Herunefer 1X wildcat in the Khalda Offset concession had discovered gas & condensate in the Alamein, Alam El Bueib-6, Masajid, Upper Safa and Lower Safa formations. The well tested a combined rate of 49 MMscf/d of gas and 7,700 bc/d from the Jurassic Upper and Lower Safa formations.   Â 
Egypt, Khalda Offset (Dev)