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Dana Gas finds more gas, condensate in Egypt

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DIGGING DEEP: Dana Gas has made a gas discovery at Salma-1 well. (Getty Images)

United Arab Emirates-based Dana Gas said on Monday it had made a gas and condensate discovery in Egypt that would potentially double its gas reserves in the North African country.

The discovery was made at the Salma-1 well located in the West Qantara Concession and was expected to add over 200 billion cubic feet of gas to reserves, the company said in a statement.

Dana made four gas discoveries in Egypt last year, the most recent in December at the El-Basant 2 well, located in the West El Manzala Concession in the Qawasim formation.

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"The excellent results yielded by the Salma-1 well definitely call for more exploratory drilling in the area, where there are several similar prospects which we will be planning soon," Ahmed al-Arbeed, Dana Gas upstream executive director, said in the statement.

Dana Gas, which relies on Egypt for the bulk of its income, said last year that it planned to invest about $500 million in Egypt and Iraq's Kurdish region in 2009 to boost natural gas output. (Reuters)


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