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 (Northern Egypt B.) ? op. by APACHE (67.0%, SIPC 33.0%, KHALDA 0.0%) in Khalda Offset (Dev) block