Middle East Economic Survey

VOL. LIII

No 48

29-Nov-2010

EGYPT/EAST MEDITERRANEAN

BP Strikes Gas On West Nile Delta Concession

BP Egypt has made a significant gas discovery in its West Mediterranean Deepwater concession 80km north of Alexandria, it said on 24 November. The WMDW-7 well was drilled to a total depth of 6,350ms, with appraisals currently underway. Hodoa is the first Oligocene deepwater discovery made in the West Nile Delta, BP said, and is indicative of the great potential of...