Egypt announces new oil discovery in Western Desert


CAIRO, June 15 (Xinhua) -- Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation (EGPC) has made a new oil discovery in the Abu Sennan field in the Western Desert, the Egyptian Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources announced on Sunday.

Preliminary test results from the new GPR-1X well are highly promising, indicating daily production rates of up to 1,400 barrels of crude oil and approximately one million cubic feet of gas from the Bahariya formation, the ministry said in a statement.

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