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RWE
Dea Makes Gas and Condensate Discovery in Egypt
04-25-2008
RWE Dea has discovered gas and
condensate in the Disouq Concession – Onshore Nile Delta. The North Sidi
Ghazi-1x well encountered a gas bearing sandstone interval of 42 m column within
the Upper Messinian reservoir sands. Formation evaluation confirmed the
encountered section to be Gas bearing with average porosity of 20 percent.
RWE Dea commenced testing operation on the North Sidi Ghazi-1x well. The test
results from the perforated interval (2,752 m – 2,770 m) revealed a flow rate of
37 MMscfdg on a 50/64"choke.
The concession was awarded to RWE Dea on July 2004 with a 100 percent interest.
The Disouq Block covers originally an onshore area of 5,523 square kilometers
within the densely populated farmland of the Nile Delta region of Egypt. 3,500
square kilometers of 3-D seismic have been acquired and evaluated since 2006.
Immediate plans are to complete testing and perform a detailed evaluation. A
second exploration well (South Sidi Ghazi - 1x) will be drilled to test another
potential Messinian structure.
RWE Dea has been an active upstream player in Egypt since 1974 and has been
producing oil in the Gulf of Suez for nearly three decades. In addition to these
operated Gulf of Suez assets it has non-operated oil and gas production in the
Nile Delta and the Western Desert onshore areas. With the start of the
development of gas fields RWE Dea aims to shift from an earlier oil producer
status in the country to that of an established gas producer.
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