– Eni announces a gas discovery of “global significance” in the Egyptian. This would, according to reports from the oil group, the biggest oil field in the Mediterranean, unable to meet the demand of Egyptian natural gas for decades. Based on the data acquired in the well and geophysical evidence available, “the field can have a potential of up to 850 billion cubic meters of gas”.
The discovery is which took place in the Egyptian Sea Mediterranean at the exploration prospect called Zohr, into a well located in 1,450 meters of water depth in block Shorouk, signed in January 2014 with the Egyptian Ministry of Petroleum and the Egyptian Natural Gas Holding Company (EGAS) following a competitive international tender.
From the geological and geophysical information available, and the data acquired in the discovery well – says the six-legged dog – “the supergiant field has a potential of resources f p to 850 billion cubic meters of gas in place (5.5 billion barrels of oil equivalent) and an area of about 100 square kilometers. Zohr is the largest gas discovery ever made in Egypt and in Mediterranean Sea and can become one of the biggest gas finds in the world. ”
“This exploration success will provide a major contribution in the meet the demand of Egyptian natural gas for decades. Eni will be the immediate tasks of delineation of the field to ensure the accelerated development of discovery that makes the best use of existing infrastructure, at sea and on land. The well Zohr 1X, which was drilled to total depth of 4,131 meters, met with about 630 meters of hydrocarbon column in a carbonate sequence of Miocene age with excellent properties The reservoir “.
The structure of Zohr also presents a potential in greater depth, which will be investigated in the future through a well dedicated. The CEO of Eni, Claudio Descalzi, visited in recent hours in Cairo to update the Egyptian president, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, on this important success, and to talk about the new discovery with the Prime Minister of the country, Ibrahim Mahlab, and with the Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources, Sherif Ismail. “ It ‘a very important day for our company and Eni people – said -. This important achievement is the confirmation of our expertise and our capacity for technological innovation with immediate practical application, and It demonstrates above all the spirit of strong cooperation between all the business components that are the basis of these great successes “.
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