Skip to main content

BP makes third gas discovery in North Damietta Concession, East Nile Delta, Egypt

Published by , Senior Editor
Oilfield Technology,


BP has announced another gas discovery in the North Damietta Offshore Concession in the East Nile Delta, Egypt. The Qattameya Shallow-1 exploration well was drilled to a total depth of 1961 m in water depth of approximately 108 m using the El Qaher II jack-up rig. The wireline logs, pressure data and fluid samples confirmed the presence of 37 m of net gas pay in high quality Pliocene sandstones. Options to tie the discovery back to nearby infrastructure are being studied.

Read the article online at: https://www.oilfieldtechnology.com/exploration/28032017/bp-makes-third-gas-discovery-in-north-damietta-concession-east-nile-delta-egypt/

You might also like

McDermott awarded offshore contract by Brazil's BRAVA Energia

Under the contract scope, McDermott will execute the transportation and installation of flexible pipelines, umbilicals and associated subsea equipment for two new wells at the Papa-Terra field and two new wells for the Atlanta Phase 2 development.

 
 

Embed article link: (copy the HTML code below):


 

This article has been tagged under the following:

Upstream news Exploration news Offshore news Oil & gas news