Egypt's Khalda Petroleum Company has discovered oil in its South Umbarka concession in the Western desert.
The company says the discovery was made at its Phiops 5 well and pumped 8,350 barrels a day (b/d) of crude.
Khalda is a 50:50 joint venture of Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation (EGPC) and US oil firm Apache (MEED 18:8:06).
In August 2008, Khalda awarded the UK's Petrofac a design, engineering and procurement contract to build a fifth gas processing train at its natural gas plant in Salam, also in the Western desert (MEED 4:8:08).
The new train, expected online by the end of 2010, will expand the plant's capacity by 100 million cubic feet a day (cf/d) of gas to 810 million cf/d and 31,000 b/d of condensate.
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