Eni signs concession agreements for two new exploration blocks in Egypt's Mediterranean shallow waters
Eni signed two new concession agreements for the North El Hammad and North Ras El Esh, located in the shallow waters in Egyptian Mediterranean Sea, as a result of the EGAS 2015 international bid round. Eni is the operator of the North El Hammad block with an equity of 37.5% in participation with BP, who […]
New massive offshore gas field could make Egypt self-sufficient
A major offshore discovery could lead Egypt to fully supply itself with natural gas by 2021. Deposits in the massive offshore Zohr field in the southeast Mediterranean are estimated at 30 trillion cubic feet, which would provide Egypt with 10 years’ worth of natural gas, industry analysts say. The Zohr field was discovered by Italy’s […]
Minister of Petroleum meets with Eni's Chairman
Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources Eng. Tarek El Molla held a meeting with Emma Marcegaglia Eni’s Chairman in the presence of Adriano Mongini Executive Vice President North Africa at Eni to discuss Eni’s activities of the development plan for the Zohr field and Nooros gas field. Eng. El-Molla noted that Egypt plans to increase […]
Eni says Egypt Nooros gas field producing 900mln cubic feet per day
Italian oil major Eni said its Egypt Nooros field is a producing almost 900 million cubic feet of gas per day and will top 1 billion cubic feet per day in the first quarter of 2017, Egypt’s state news agency MENA reported. Once an energy exporter, Egypt has turned into a net importer in recent […]
How Eni bet big and won big on Natural Gas off Egypt
A drilling ship working about 120 miles off the Egyptian coast for Eni, the Italian oil company based here, bored into a giant trove of natural gas in July 2015 that turned out to be the largest discovery ever in the Mediterranean Sea and by far the largest by the global petroleum industry that year. […]
Egypt's oil and gas sector rallies
In late August Shell announced that it had discovered 142bn cu metres of natural gas at its Alam El Shawish concession in Egypt’s Western Desert, with the possibility of more reserves to be recovered, representing one of the largest finds in the region in recent years. This follows another discovery by the Egyptian General Petroleum […]
Eni & BP complete drilling of second well in South Baltim
Project’s production platform under preparation to link 350m cubic feet of gas daily, says source. Italian company Eni and British company BP have finished drilling two wells in the South Baltim field, which is located southeast of the Delta. The production platform is under preparation to link 350m cubic feet of gas daily from the […]
Eni plans to raise Nooros production to 180 mcf/d by mid-September
Eni plans to bring gas production at Nooros field to 180 mcf/d by mid-September after connecting three of the field’s wells to the national grid, Al Borsa reports. Gas production from the field is expected to reach 700 mcf/d by year’s end, said a source from EGAS. (Source: Enterprise.press)
Eni, BP target daily production of 350m cubic feet of gas from South Baltim field
Six wells will be linked from the new discovery to the national grid by the end of 2016/2017, says source. The Italian oil company Eni and British BP will target the production of 350m cubic feet per day of gas from the discovery in South Baltim (east of the Nile Delta) by the end of […]
