Dana Gas says good results from Sondos

Dana Gas, the Middle East's first and largest regional private sector natural gas company, has announced that production from the recently discovered Sondos gas field has delivered outstanding results.

The Sondos field, in the West El Manzala concession in Egypt's Nile Delta region, was discovered in February 2009, with estimated gas reserves of 20 billion cubic feet, and was tested at 11.1 million standard cubic feet per day (mmscfd) of dry gas.

It currently has two producing wells, "Sondos-One" and "Sondos-Two", delivering at an average daily rate of 12 mmscfd.

"The drilling campaign has achieved excellent results so far, promising to add momentum to the company's 2009 production in Egypt. The new discovery, which is a new addition to the series of discoveries achieved by the company in 2008 and 2009, is as a result of Dana Gas' aggressive drilling campaign in Egypt," said CEO Ahmed Al Arbeed.

The Sondos Field project's schedule was fast-tracked, which took less than a month to complete. This was carried out by tying the two wells into the existing gas pipeline, to deliver the gas to the South El Manzala Plant.

 

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