ALGERIA - Oilfield Profiles - Cepsa - Rhourde El Krouf.Cepsa of Spain in May 1996 became the second foreign oil producer in Algeria, as it brought Rhourde El Krouf (RKF RKF Rapid Knowledge Formation ) field on stream at the rate of 4,000 b/d of light oil, in the Rhourde Yacoub Block (406a). It raised this capacity to 20,000 b/d by late 1996 and to 35,000 b/d by 1999. Now it is producing 30,000 b/d. The field, part of the Ghadames Basin, lies in Erg erg (ûrg), unit of work or energy in the cgs system of units, which is based on the metric system; it is the work done or energy expended by a force of 1 dyne acting through a distance of 1 centimeter. Oriental near the Tunisian border. It was discovered in September 1992. Cepsa has spent $200m on this. In May 1996 Cepsa revised its estimate of Block 406a's reserves in place to about 500m barrels of 51 deg. API (Application Programming Interface) A language and message format used by an application program to communicate with the operating system or some other control program such as a database management system (DBMS) or communications protocol. oil and 150 MCM (MultiChip Module or MicroChip Module) A chip package that contains several bare chips mounted close together on a substrate (base) of some kind. of gas, of which it said 40% would be recoverable. In 1999, it said the oil in place amounted to 4,000m barrels, of which 1,500m would be recoverable. RKF is in Upper Triassic TAGI sandstone and Carboniferous shale reservoir. In the same Block 406a Cepsa in early October 1995 found ORD field. ORD-1 flowed at the rate of 7,000 b/d. Appraisal well ORD-4, completed in November 1996, confirmed the field had the same reservoir as Berkine East of Anadarko in adjacent block 404a, and MLN MLN Million MLN Modern Language Notes (literary journal) MLN Management & Leadership Network (Northern Ireland) MLN Missouri League for Nursing MLN Main Listed Number field in Menzel Ledjmet Block 405a of Louisiana CODE, OF LOUISIANA. In 1822, Peter Derbigny, Edward Livingston, and Moreau Lislet, were selected by the legislature to revise and amend the civil code, and to add to it such laws still in force as were not included therein. Land & Exploration (LL&E) which is now owned by Burlington Resources Burlington Resources, is an American oil and gas company. Their headquarters are in Houston, Texas. Based in Houston, Texas, BR has major offices located in Calgary, London, Farmington, Midland and Fort Worth. of Houston (see below). Before the joint reservoir was confirmed, Cepsa had planned to raise its oil production capacity from RKF and ORD fields to 160,000 b/d by late 1997, having estimated the potential of ORD alone at 120,000 b/d. But later agreement was reached for a joint development plan (see below). Cepsa has eight oil exploration blocks in 60,000 sq km of the Timimoun Basin under an agreement with Sonatrach, which it has done geological research and seismic processing. In February 1999 it agreed with Sonatrach to renew a project in the south-west near the border with Morocco. Cover-ing 97,125 sq km, this area is forecast to hold significant gas. Cepsa and Sonatrach have a JV to build a marine gas pipeline direct from Algeria to the Spanish coast (see Part 3 in next week's Gas Market Trends). |
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