ENI announces further increase in production of the largest gas fields in the Mediterranean

Italy's largest oil field, the largest in the Mediterranean, is the largest discovered deposit in the Mediterranean, overtaking the Leviatan deposit in Israel, the Italian company Eni said on Saturday.

The company said in a newspaper that oil field production in the Mediterranean Sea would reach 3.2 billion cubic feet of gas a day by 2019, thanks to the use of the latest technologies in field development.

The Egyptian Minister of Petroleum has stated that gas field production has increased six times in a year since the opening of President Abdul-Fattah al-Sisi, first production in January, the production rate of 350 million feet cubes of gas per day at 2 billion cubic feet per day in current times.

According to the Italian company, the initial estimate of the field was 2.7 billion feet of gas per day, it increased in September to reach 3 billion feet, then by the end of 2019, it reached 3.2 billion feet a day.

Egypt's natural gas production reached 6 billion cubic feet per day in July, while Eni discovered a field appeared in 2015, estimated at 30 trillion cubic feet of natural gas.

Over the last three years, Egypt has succeeded in creating new gas discoveries and entering into new agreements in the Mediterranean that would turn Egypt into a regional energy trading center, the latest being the new ones. fields located in the western Delta, north of Alexandria.