almotamar.net - The Norwegian oil company DNO announced Saturday its first amount production of crude oil in the area of Shereuf, well No. 24, block 25 with a primary production rate of 1.100 thousand barrels per day.

Then company indicated that block 52 is about 500 km to the east of the capital Sana'a.

The company had earlier announced it had begun digging in this block in September 2006.

Preliminary indicators confirm that the rate of production may amount to 8000 bpd.