Eni Allocated Zohr Site: Report
Italy’s Eni has been allocated a site near the coast for a gas processing plant to receive flows from its giant offshore giant Zohr gasfield.
The Italian firm has received a 400 feddan (148 hectare) site in Port Said governorate to establish its gas process plant, said Egypt’s oil minister Tarek el-Molla according to a report by Egyptian economic monthly newsletter Amwal Al Ghad which in turn was reported by Zawya on April 26.
Eni in Milan said it had no further information when contacted by NGE on April 27.
Two weeks ago in Paris, Eni CEO Claudio Descalzi said that Zohr is due to start up in late 2017 initially at 1bn ft3/d, but would later rise in phases to 2.8bn ft3/d. From discovery of the 30 trillion ft3 Zohr field to its development approval in February 2016 took less than a year.
Meanwhile the UK has urged Egypt to consider “every possible scenario” regarding the murder of Italian sociology researcher Giulio Regeni, found dead on February 3 this year, reported Daily News Egypt on April 26. Italy has made repeated demands for Regeni’s killers to be brought to justice, with even Eni’s Descalzi noting that the murder had made relations between Egypt and Italy “very difficult”.
NGE has confirmed that the UK Parliament website this week carried a government statement including this: “We are aware of allegations that the Egyptian security forces were responsible for the murder of Mr Regeni. These are unproven but we urge the Egyptian authorities to consider every possible scenario as they investigate.” Royal Dutch Shell (through BG Group) and BP are significant gas producers in Egypt.
Mark Smedley