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Monday, February 29, 2016
ENI successfully drilled its Nidoco North 1X well, in the exploration prospect of Nooros East, located in the Abu Madi West license in Egypt’s Nile Delta. The new find start up is expected by the end of March 2016 and will allow the Nooros area, which started production in September 2015, just two months after the initial Nooros discovery, to reach a production of approximately 45,000boepd.
By mid-2016, with the addition of new development wells, the company expects production capacity to increase to over 60,000 boepd. The gas and condensates produced are sent to the Abu Madi’ treatment plant and then routed to the Egyptian network.
Nidoco North 1X well, similarly to Nooros’ last discoveries, was drilled from onshore as a deviated well to the Nooros East field in the offshore shallow waters. The well encountered over 43 meters of net gas and condensates bearing sandstone layers of Messinian age with excellent petrophysical properties.
In parallel with the field development, ENI will continue its exploration activities in the license area, where significant additional potential has been identified which will be tested through the drilling of further two exploration wells.
This new discovery, with immediate return of production capacity, is the result of ENI’s near field exploration strategy targeting high value activities able to grant the rapid development of discoveries through existing infrastructures.
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