Petroleum and Mineral Resources Minister Tariq al-Mulla announced the start of pumping natural gas from the Zohr gas field in the Mediterranean Sea to the new land station in the al-Jameel area in Port Said, which will be processed and pumped into Egypt’s national gas grid. Mulla added that the initial production rate of the field is 350 million cubic feet of gas per day. He said that the technical operation tests for the processing units and gas transmission lines from the field to the treatment plant were successful. The minister said that once the first phase is completed, the second phase of the project will be started. The project is scheduled to be completed by 2019, with the completion of all stages of the project to reach 2.7 billion cubic feet per day.

Source: Egypt Independent December 17, 2017 12:00 UTC