Petroleum min. inspects progress in Zohr field

CAIRO - 12 December 2018: Petroleum Minister Tarek el Molla inspected on Wednesday the progress realized so far in the Zohr gas field, offshore the Mediterranean Sea.

In a statement on Wednesday, the minister convened with the leaderships of companies in charge of implementing the project which was opened by President Abdel Fattah al Sisi last January.

The minister reviewed the timetable of the project, noting that the Zohr output is expected to exceed 3 billion cubic meters daily by 2019.

The project started last December with an initial output of 350 million cubic meters daily and now reached 2 billion cubic meters daily.