The National Oil Production Company (NOPC) and subsidiary Rally Energy have announced a 55% increase in total production since December 2009 across both its Egyptian and Pakistani assets.
In Egypt the Issaran field operated by Scimitar Production Egypt, a fully owned subsidiary of NOPC recorded a production increase from 3,000 BOPD in December 2009 to its current level 4,000BOPD.
The core production component, steam production, has risen to 2,400 BOPD.
“We have reason to believe that the steam flooding method that we started to employ six months ago is showing initial signs of success and is expected to open over the next period potential for exploitation of the reserves base,” said NOPC chief reservoir officer Dr Mohsen Rizkallah.
“Management also believes they have found the right solution to revive production from the Nukhul wells through a water shut-off program. This program has seen the water cut in the first test well fall to 60% from 100% with a resulting production range of between 70-90 BOPD from one well,” said NOPC chief executive officer Mohamed Farid.
