Cairo – Mubasher: The Italian multinational oil and gas Eni on Wednesday said that it had produced its first gas from Egypt’s Zohr field, according to Reuters.
“It will completely transform Egypt’s energy landscape, allowing it to become self-sufficient and to turn from an importer of natural gas into a future exporter,” Eni’s CEO Claudio Descalzi said.
Last Saturday, Egypt’s Petroleum minister Tarek El-Molla said that the offshore natural gas field located in the Egyptian sector of the Mediterranean Sea began to inject natural gas output into Port Said treatment plant with an initial production capacity of 350 million cubic feet per day (mcfd).
Zohr’s production will rise gradually to approximately billion cubic feet of gas per day by mid-2018, El-Molla said in a statement earlier this month.
The Egyptian giant gas field’s output will reach 2.7 bcfd late 2019, the statement highlighted.
Egypt’s gas output stood at 5.1 bcfd in 2017, up from 4.4 bcfd in 2016 after British Petroleum’s (BP) North Alexandria project came onstream.
