In late May 2018, El Hamra Oil Co completed the Alamein Southeast 1 exploration well in the Alamein-Yidma development lease as an Upper Bahariya oil producer. The well was spudded on 4 April 2018 with the âIPR-1â land rig and drilled to a TD of 2,135 m in the Albian Kharita formation.  Alamein Southeast 1 had a planned TD of 2,133 m and objectives in the Cretaceous in the Bahariya formation, Razzak Sandstone Member and the Abu Roash âGâ Member.  El Hamra Oil Co is a JV between the EGPC, IPR-Transoil Corp and Sojitz Oil and Gas.   Background information  Alamein is an oil field located in El Hamra Oil's Alamein-Yidma development Block in the Northern Egypt Basin. The field was discovered in 1966 and put on production two years later from the Alamein Dolomite reservoir.
Egypt (Northern Egypt B.) ? op. by APACHE (50.0%, IPR 30.0%, SOJITZ 20.0%) in Alamein-Yidma block