The North Sinai Petroleum Company announced the start of the second development plan of its marine fields, which serves its plan to explore and develop more gas production.

This plans targets the increase of natural gas off its concession areas; Taw and Camos, located 50 km and 60 km far from Romana Village respectively, in the governorate of North Sinai.

“The plan includes the linking of subsea wells to El-Wastani storage facility. Also, two offshore wells will be drilled at the Taw offshore platform, in addition to another two wells at the South West Taw tanker… moreover, the plan aims at developing the Camos field through the drilling of another two wells and the installation of a new offshore platform to be tied to the current offshore production line,” explained Eng. Abed Ezz El-Regal, President of NOSPCO.

Besides, the company prepares for a new route for 12” pipelines to tie the production of the deep El-Wastani wells and the production of the new Camos offshore platform to the current Taw offshore platform, added Ezz El-Regal.

“The second stage of this project aims at maintaining the present production rate stable, which counts for 180 million cubic feet per day. This would help increasing the tanks’ production life span for another two years.”