mediterranean sea | Egypt Oil & Gas
EUG Spotlights Deepwater West El King Block in Egypt’s 2026 Bid Round
The Egypt Upstream Gateway (EUG) has given an overview of the West El King Block, one of the 14 oil and gas exploration blocks included in Egypt’s 2026 international bid round launched by the Ministry of Petroleum and...
bp Uses Sidetrack Drilling to Accelerate Fayoum North 4 Output
As part of the Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources’ (MoPMR) strategy to increase domestic natural gas production, maximize existing infrastructure, and reduce reliance on imports, it is working with bp to brin...
Badawi Inspects Shell’s Velox‑1X Well, Deepest in Mediterranean
Karim Badawi, Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources (MoPMR), inspected Shell Global’s drilling operations at the “Velox-1X” exploratory well aboard the drilling vessel Stena IceMax in the North...
Mina West-1 Well Begins Initial Production at 45 MMcf/d of Gas
The initial production rates of the Mina West-1 well, part of the West Mina gas field development project in the Mediterranean Sea, came at approximately 45 million cubic feet per day (mmcf/d) of natural gas and aroun...
Badawi Meets Eni, Chevron Leaders to Advance Gas Exploration at ADIPEC 2025
Karim Badawi, Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources, met with Claudio Descalzi, CEO of Eni, during his participation in the ADIPEC Exhibition and Conference 2025 in Abu Dhabi to accelerate the company’s explorat...
Egypt Discovers Gas-Bearing Layer at Zohr-9 Boosting Output by 70 mmcf/d
Egypt has encounterd a gas-bearing layer at the Zohr-9 well in the Mediterranean Sea, with an estimated output of about 70 million cubic feet per day (mmcf/d), according to Karim Badawi, Minister of Petroleum and Mine... QatarEnergy Acquires 40% Stake in Offshore North Rafah Block
QatarEnergy has acquired 40% participating interest in the North Rafah exploration block offshore the Mediterranean Sea through a farm-in transaction with Italian Eni, the Operator of the block, which would retain the...
EGAS, bp to Drill Five Exploratory Gas Wells in the Mediterranean
The Egyptian Natural Gas Holding Company (EGAS) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with bp for assessing opportunities to implement a drilling program of five exploratory wells at depths ranging from 300 t...
