The start-up follows a new gas discovery made by Khalda Petroleum, a joint venture between the Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation and global energy company Apache, through the drilling of the deep Watda exploratory well.
Khalda Petroleum Company has started production from a new gas well in Egypt’s Western Desert at a rate of 40 million cubic feet per day, according to a statement issued by the Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources.
The start-up follows a new gas discovery made by Khalda Petroleum, a joint venture between the Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation and global energy company Apache, through the drilling of the deep Watda exploratory well.
The well was drilled to a depth of 15,000 feet, with electric logging data showing positive indications and confirming the presence of gas-bearing geological formations.
Final production tests, conducted immediately after drilling operations were completed, recorded an output of 40 million cubic feet of gas per day, highlighting the well’s promising potential and supporting efforts to increase domestic gas production.
Khalda began actual production and gas injection from the Watda well on Tuesday, July 21. The well is expected to be fully connected to the national gas grid before the end of July, in line with the targeted schedule.
The new production will help strengthen Egypt’s gas supply system and reflects the continued success of intensified exploration activities in the Western Desert.
Khalda Petroleum also completed the construction of a new 10-kilometre production pipeline at an investment cost of $2.3 million. The pipeline enabled the company to rapidly transport the gas and connect the new well to existing infrastructure as part of its plan to accelerate the integration of new discoveries into production.
