Tunisian industry: the discovery well for «oil and gas» in Douz

The Tunisian Ministry of Industry announced Tuesday the discovery of oil wells and natural gas area Shusha Atrous Douz.

She said the ministry, in a statement today that it had been drilled «Shusha Atrous - 1» on the license search for hydrocarbons called «Saffron» located state «tribal» during the period from February 10, 2015 to April 7, 2015 to a final depth reached 3,900 meters with a layer red.

The statement pointed out that the results achieved during the initial experiments on 27 and April 28, 2015 on the «red» layer that produced a daily flow rate of the well is estimated at about 4,300 barrels of oil and 400 thousand square meters of gas.

The «Shusha Atrous -1» Bmatmdah «doze» South East discovery sparkling city of the state of tribal first discovery since 2013 to now.

The ministry said that the saffron license enjoyed by the two Dutch nationality Mazarin Energie Tunisia b. P by 45% and the Tunisian own Madhaks Tunisia Petroleum Limited by 5% in association with the Tunisian Enterprise for Petroleum Activities by 50 percent.

The Dutch Petroleum Company Mazarin Energy had announced last week the discovery without full details, and said in a statement on its website on the Internet, that the well discovered expected to produce 4,300 barrels of oil per day and approximately 400 thousand cubic meters of gas per day as stated statement The Ministry of Industry today.