Rashid Petroleum (Rashpetco) and Burullus Gas Company have successfully completed drilling the remaining six wells within the 9B phase of the West Delta Deep Marine (WDDM).

Shell announced that the “Discoverer India” Drillship will start drilling in the first 6,000 meters deep marine well, West Delta Deep Marine (WDDM) concession by the end of this August.

Despite the high natural decline rate, 9B phase will make up for the decline as it gets connected to Burullus field before the end of fiscal year (FY) 2018/19.

The first two wells from Phase 9B of Egypt’s WDDM concession are expected to come online in October 2018.

Shell has increased the amount of natural gas exported from its Idku liquefaction plant to 250 million standard cubic feet per day (mmscf/d), up from 150 mmscf/d in the previous fiscal year.

Royal Dutch Shell is renegotiating its agreement with the Egyptian government for its development of the Burullus field.

Shell and Petronas will start working on phase 9B in the Burullus field during the fourth quarter of 2017.

Siemens plans to connect 800MW of electricity produced at Burullus power plant to Egypt's national grid by the end of June 2017.

Shell and Petronas began working on phase 9B of the Burullus gas field.

The Egyptian Ministry of Electricity has spent around $238m on enhancing power transformer stations to support Egypt’s electricity distribution network in preparation for the addition of three new power plants.