Eni, BP make new gas discovery offshore Egypt

  • Date: 17-Sep-2020
  • Source: Trade Arabia
  • Sector:Oil & Gas
  • Country:Egypt
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Eni, BP make new gas discovery offshore Egypt

Italian oil major Eni and BP have announced a new gas discovery in the "Great Nooros Area", located in the Abu Madi West Development Lease, in the conventional waters of the Nile Delta, offshore Egypt.

This new discovery, achieved through the Nidoco NW-1 exploratory well, is located in 16 meters of water depth, 5 km from the coast and 4 km north from the Nooros field, discovered in July 2015.

The Nidoco NW-1 exploratory well discovered gas-bearing sands for a total thickness of 100 meters, of which 50 meters within the Pliocene sands of the Kafr-El-Sheik formations and 50 meters within the Messinian age sandstone of the Abu Madi formations, both levels with good petrophysical properties.

The preliminary evaluation of the well results, considering the extension of the reservoir towards north and the