The Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Sources (MoPMR) introduced the profitable drilling and completion of two extra wells within the Raven gasoline Area operated by bp at West Nile Delta (WND) Concession, using Volaris DS12 Drill Ship.
In July 2024, Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Sources Karim Badawi visited Volaris DS12 to supervise the drilling actions. Presently, subsea hookup and commissioning actions are ongoing to tie the 2 wells to the present subsea community within the Mediterranean, paving the best way for manufacturing to start. First gasoline is anticipated three months forward of schedule in February 2025 due to an accelerated drilling and set up plan.
Having achieved such an achievement, Volaris DS12 is now underway to Elking exploration space offshore Egypt within the Mediterranean to start an exploratory drilling marketing campaign.
The marketing campaign targets pure gasoline reservoirs within the Decrease Messinian Formation, aiming to achieve the reservoir by the tip of February 2025. Elking exploration space is strategically situated close to BP’s WND current infrastructure, together with pipelines and manufacturing services, fast-tracking potential manufacturing within the occasion of profitable discovery, contributing to the Ministry’s technique of maximizing pure gasoline manufacturing and operational effectivity.
This exploratory exercise within the Elking space aligns with the Ministry’s efforts over the previous six months to spice up offshore drilling actions within the Mediterranean. The area has witnessed a big enhance in exploration and manufacturing actions, together with Chevron’s drilling within the Khanjar-1 effectively, ExxonMobil Egypt’s work on the Nefertari-1 effectively, bp’s developmental drilling within the Raven Area, and Eni’s resumption of drilling operations within the Zohr Area this month.
