Gas production from third stage of Egypt’s West Nile Delta development

Gas production has commenced from the Raven field, the third stage of BP’s major West Nile Delta (WND) development off the Mediterranean coast in Egypt.

The $9bn WND project includes five gas fields across the North Alexandria and West Mediterranean deepwater offshore concession blocks in the Mediterranean Sea, and is being developed in three stages. Raven follows the Taurus/Libra and Giza/Fayoum projects, which started production in 2017 and 2019 respectively. It produces gas to a new onshore processing facility, alongside the existing West Nile Delta onshore processing plant.

Raven is currently producing approximately 600mn cf/d of gas. At its peak, the field has the potential to produce 900mn cf/d and 30,000 b/d of condensate.

In total, the WND development includes 25 wells producing gas to the onshore processing plant via three long-distance subsea tie-backs. The onshore facilities – including the new Raven facility – now have a total gas processing capacity of around 1.4bn cf/d of gas, which is fed into Egypt’s national grid.

BP is the operator and has an 82.75% stake in the WND development, with Wintershall Dea holding the remaining 17.25% interest.