Arabian Gulf Oil Co in Ghadames Basin gas/condensate find - Libya

This article is extracted from International Oil Letter, Vol 24 issue 52, published 22 December 2008.

Although the well was completed in April 2008, only now has Arabian Gulf Oil Company (Agoco) confirmed that its D1-NC7A new field wildcat drilled in Block NC7A, Ghadames Basin is a gas/condensate discovery. Initial production test flows from several intervals in the Upper, Middle and Lower Acacus sandstones flowed a combined 4,154 bc/d and 129 MMcfg/d.

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The well was drilled to the total depth 3,002m and encountered multiple shows at a depth of 3,629 to 4,163m.  In the Upper Acacus sandstone formation, condensate flowed at a rate of 668 b/d and 22.5 MMcf/d of gas.  In the Middle Acacus sandstone formation, condensate flowed at a rate of 500 b/d and 21.1 MMcf/d of gas.  In the Lower Acacus sandstone formation multiple tests flowed condensate a rates of 790 to 1,251 b/d and gas at a rate of 27.6 to 28.9 MMcf/d.

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