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Badawi Inspects Shell’s Velox‑1X Well, Deepest in Mediterranean
Karim Badawi, Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources (MoPMR), inspected Shell Global’s drilling operations at the “Velox-1X” exploratory well aboard the drilling vessel Stena IceMax in the North Cleopatra area of the Herodotus Basin in the Mediterranean Sea. The Drilling operations, which will reach a depth of 6,000 meters- the deepest offshore well in the [] The post Badawi Inspects Shell’s Velox‑1X Well, Deepest in Mediterranean first appeared on Egypt Oil Gas.
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Egypt’s Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources, Karim Badawi, inspected drilling operations at Shell’s Velox-1X exploration well in the Mediterranean Sea on Saturday, describing the project as a strategic step towards unlocking new gas resources and boosting the country’s natural gas production. During a visit aboard the drilling vessel Stena IceMAX, Badawi reviewed progress on [] The post Egypt advances offshore gas exploration with deepest Mediterranean well appeared first on Egyptian Gazette.
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