Eni announces a new gas discovery in the Nour prospect, Offshore Egypt - ENI

14/03/2019 11:15

Eni announces a new gas discovery under evaluation in the Nour exploration prospect located in Eastern Egyptian Mediterranean. Feasibility studies in order to accelerate the exploitation of these new resources leveraging the synergies with existing facilities will start after finalizing the discovery evaluation

San Donato Milanese (Milan), 14 March 2019 – Eni announces a new gas discovery under evaluation in the Nour exploration prospect located in the Nour North Sinai Concession, in the Eastern Egyptian Mediterranean, about 50 km North of the Sinai peninsula.

The Nour-1 New Field Wildcat (NFW), which has led to the discovery, was drilled by the Scarabeo-9 semi-sub in a water depth of 295 meters and reached a total depth of 5,914 meters.

Nour-1 well found 33 meters of gross sandstone pay with good petrophysical properties and an estimated gas column of 90 meters in the Tineh formation of Oligocene age. The well has not been tested, however an intense and accurate data acquisition has been carried out.

UPDATE 1-Egypt approves BP purchase of 25 pct of Nour gas concession - REUTERS / EGYPT TODAY

Sun, Dec. 9, 2018

CAIRO, Dec 9 (Reuters) - BP and UAE-based Mubadala Investment Co are to buy stakes in the Nour deepwater gas concession off the northern coast of Sinai, following approval by Egypt’s petroleum ministry on Sunday. 

Nour lies near the Zohr gas field, which was declared the biggest in the Mediterranean when it was discovered in 2015. Zohr is estimated to hold about 30 trillion cubic feet of gas and has raised interest in gas exploration in Egypt.

BP will buy 25 percent and Abu Dhabi state fund Mubadala 20 percent of the Nour concession from Italian energy company Eni , the petroleum ministry said in a statement.

Eni, which had held 85 percent of the concession through a subsidiary, will now hold 40 percent. Egypt’s state-controlled Tharwa Petroleum Company holds the remaining 15 percent.

Eni and Tharwa were originally due to start drilling the first exploratory oil well at Nour in late September.

Eni sells to Mubadala Petroleum a 20% stake in the Nour North Sinai Offshore concession in Egypt - ENI

Abu Dhabi (UAE), 12 November 2018

Eni further strengthens its ties with Mubadala Petroleum, building on the successful partnership in the Shorouk concession. The Chief Executive Officer of Petroleum & Petrochemicals, Mubadala Investment Company, and Chairman of Mubadala Petroleum, Musabbeh Al Kaabi, and the Chief Executive Officer of Eni, Claudio Descalzi, signed an agreement today for the sale of a 20% participating interest, out of Eni’s share, in the Nour North Sinai Offshore concession, in Egypt, to Mubadala Petroleum, a wholly owned subsidiary of Mubadala Investment Company.