drilling | Egypt Oil & Gas - Part 22
IOG, Transocean Sign North Sea Oil Drilling Contract
Independent Oil and Gas (IOG), the North Sea focused oil and gas company, has signed a rig contract with Transocean Drilling procuring the Transocean John Shaw semi-submersible rig to drill an appraisal well on the Sk...
Eni’s Zohr is Expected to Produce Only 22 TCF
The Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation (EGPC) Chairman Mohammed Al-Masry told Egypt Oil & Gas that EGPC agreed totally with the head of Italy’s Eni that the Zohr giant gas field needed to enter into production...
Morocco Reports High Success Rate in Search of Gas
Morocco’s Office of Hydrocarbons and Mining (ONHYM) announced that the drilling program at the Gharb-Chrarda-Beni Hssen region has been successful, with 19 out of 22 wells drilled testing positive for natural gas, Mor...
Iran Drills New Wells, Moves into LNG Carrier Construction
Iran’s South Yaran Oilfield plans to drill 22 wells by March 2016, reported Trade Arabia, citing Mohammadreza Takayedi, deputy head of National Iranian Drilling Company (NIDC). He added that up to 60,000 b/d of crude ...
Egypt Redefines Mediterranean Borders
Ahmed Abdel Halim, petroleum expert in maritime borders, told Egypt Oil & Gas that the ministry of defense had sent a map to the petroleum ministry illustrating all concessions owned by Egypt in the Mediterranean ...
BAPETCO Achieves Highest Production Record in 15 Years
Badr El-Din Petroleum Company (BAPETCO) achieved its highest rates of oil and gas production in 15 years, reported Daily News Egypt. Emad Hamdy, Chairman of BAPETCO, said that the company increased the production of n... Oil and Water Ministries to Cooperate on Minya Irrigation Project
The Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources has signed a protocol with the Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation to cooperate on drilling 500 wells in the area of West Minya, to access underground water for i...
Eni to Produce 70,000 Boepd from Nile Delta
Eni has announced in a press release the success of the appraisal well “Nidoco North West 3,” in the Nooros exploration prospect, located in the Abu Madi West license in the Nile Delta. The field, which is...
