- El Fayoum-5 encountered four prospective gas reservoirs.
- The discovery will be tied back to the West Nile Delta Gas Development.
bp plc discovered gas at the El Fayoum-5 well at the North Alexandria Offshore Concession in Egypt’s West Nile Delta.
The El Fayoum-5 gas discovery well was spudded by the Valaris DS-12 rig on Feb. 14. It is the final well in bp’s four-slot drilling campaign in the West Nile Delta.
The well encountered four prospective Messinian gas reservoirs, with a total sand thickness of 50 m at a measured depth of about 2,900 m.
Plans are under way to tie back the discovery to bp’s operated West Nile Delta (WND) Gas Development (OGJ Online, Mar. 6, 2015).
This marks bp’s second consecutive gas discovery in recent months, following the successful El King-2 well in the North King Mariout Offshore Concession.
Alex Procyk | Upstream Editor
Alex Procyk is Upstream Editor at Oil & Gas Journal. He has also served as a principal technical professional at Halliburton and as a completion engineer at ConocoPhillips. He holds a BS in chemistry (1987) from Kent State University and a PhD in chemistry (1992) from Carnegie Mellon University. He is a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE).
