In Q3 2018, Agiba Petroleum completed its Meleiha 55 Deepening deeper-pool test (DPT) as an oil producer. The well encountered a new oil pool in the Early Cretaceous Alam El Bueib (AEB) Formation below the producing Cretaceous Bahariya Formation of the Meleiha Field. The well was drilled on the Meleiha development lease of the Meleiha PSC, located in the Shushan Basin. It was spudded on 20 June 2018, reaching 2,804m TD (2,564m TVD). Operations were carried out by the SinoTharwa Drilling #7 rig. The original wellbore, the Meleiha 55 development well, was drilled in 2016. Meleiha 55 Deepening was one of two DPTs drilled on the Meleiha Field, with Meleiha 57 Deepening also encountering oil in the AEB horizon. Equity in the Agiba consortium is split between Eni (38%), Lukoil (12%) and EGPC (50%, carried). 
Agiba Petroleum completed its Meleiha 55 Deepening deeper-pool test (DPT) as an oil producer. The well encountered a new oil pool in the Early Cretaceous Alam El Bueib (AEB) Formation below the producing Cretaceous Bahariya Formation of the Meleiha Field.