Cairo – Mubasher: Rosneft Oil Company, a Russia-based integrated energy company, has revealed that natural gas production from Egypt's offshore field Zohr in the Mediterranean Sea reached around 12.2 billion cubic metres (bcm) in 2018.
Gas output from the Egyptian supergiant filed has been quadrupled in the second half of 2018, compared to 3.1 bcm in H1-18, the Russian energy conglomerate said in a statement.
Zohr’s treatment capacity surged last year to 56.6 million cubic metres of gas per day from 11.3 million cubic metres of gas per day, according to the statement.
By the end of 2019, gas production from Zohr is expected to reach 76 million cubic metres per day, Rosneft indicated.
The amount of gas at Zohr field is estimated at around 850 billion cubic metres, and the project is being implemented as a concession between Italy’s Eni, the UK’s BP plc, and Abu Dhabi-based Mubadala Petroleum, according to the company’s data.
