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Edison Completes Drilling Exploratory Well Offshore Egypt


Mon 01 Jun 2020 | 01:28 AM
Taarek Refaat

Edison Research and Exploration Company has announced the successful completion of drilling a gas exploration well (Ameeq-1X) in the waters of the eastern Mediterranean in Egypt.

The company added in a statement that the well, located located in North Thekah concession, off the coast of Egypt, was drilled as the company has a 100% right to operate the project, explaining that the drilling was done at a total depth of 985 meters, where Maersk Discoverer made drilling at a total depth of 5670.5 meters in a total period of three months.

Edison’s Ameeq-1X was the company’s first well on its North Thekah concession. Supplier of efficient solutions for Drilling "PSW" worked with Edison’s team, prepared logistics and response plans to mobilize and deploy the stack in Egypt, if required from the Mongstad offshore supply base in western Norway.

[caption id="attachment_129660" align="aligncenter" width="1007"]Edison Completes Drilling Exploratory Well in Egypt's Mediterranean  A capping stack used for well closure[/caption]

Analysis suggested the stack could arrive at the well site as fast any other system, even if flown to Egypt.

The company pointed out that extensive data was obtained during drilling, pointing out that the results of drilling are technically encouraging for future exploration east of the Nile Delta, as it is an area still weak exploration.

North Thekah lies close to Egypt’s giant Zohr field, Cyprus’s Aphrodite and Israel’s Tamar and Leviathan fields.

Italian giant Eni’s Zohr field, with an estimated 30 trillion cubic feet of gas, is the largest ever discovered in the Mediterranean. It started production in late 2017.

Italian energy group Edison has begun drilling an exploratory well in deepwater acreage in Egypt, not far from other giant east Mediterranean gas fields.

Meantime, Energean is in the process of taking over Edison’s Egyptian assets in a deal reached last year.