{"id":12500,"date":"2022-07-26T07:10:16","date_gmt":"2022-07-26T07:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/?p=12500"},"modified":"2022-07-26T07:10:16","modified_gmt":"2022-07-26T07:10:16","slug":"algeria-sonatrach-announces-2-more-discoveries-in-the-illizi-bechar-basins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/algeria-sonatrach-announces-2-more-discoveries-in-the-illizi-bechar-basins\/","title":{"rendered":"ALGERIA: SONATRACH Announces 2 More Discoveries in the Illizi &#038; Bechar Basins"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">SONATRACH announces that it has made two gas discoveries in its own effort in Algeria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The first is a discovery of condensate gas made in two Devonian reservoirs, following the drilling by SONATRACH of an exploration well In Ekker Sud West-1 (IEKSW-1) in the &#8220;In Amenas 2&#8221; research perimeter. of the Illizi Basin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">the flow rates recorded during the tests are 300,000 m3\/day of gas and 26 m3\/day of condensate from the first tank and 213,000 m3\/day of gas and 17 m3\/day of condensate from the second tank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The second discovery was recorded by SONATRACH during the drilling of a Tamzaia-3 (TAMZ-3) delineation well on the Taghit research perimeter of the Bechar Basin, where an interesting gas production was obtained. during the Siegenian (Lower Devonian) reservoir formation test.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This result thus highlights a gas potential in this previously untested reservoir in a region considered to be an emerging domain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SONATRACH announces that it has made two gas discoveries in its own effort in Algeria. The first is a discovery of condensate gas made in two Devonian reservoirs, following the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/algeria-sonatrach-announces-2-more-discoveries-in-the-illizi-bechar-basins\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":8261,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7442,7446,11],"tags":[121,10635,10632,10631,10633,2363,10634],"class_list":["post-12500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-countries","category-north-africa","category-top-news","tag-algeria","tag-bechar-basin","tag-ekker-sud-west-1","tag-illizi-basin","tag-ohanet","tag-sonatrach","tag-tamzaia-3","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/sonatrach.jpg?fit=1500%2C994&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5JWkQ-3fC","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12962,"url":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/algeria-sonatrach-completion-of-the-production-start-up-of-the-gas-field-of-tinrhert-to-ohanet\/","url_meta":{"origin":12500,"position":0},"title":"ALGERIA: Sonatrach Announces Completion of the Production Start-up of the Gas Field of Tinrhert to Ohanet","author":"","date":"December 14, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"SONATRACH announces the completion, at the end of November 2022, of the start of production of the Tinrhert gas field to existing units in Ohanet, Wilaya of Illizi, including the gradual production began in July 2022. 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