Egypt’s petroleum ministry announced on Saturday that the offshore Zohr gas field was now live.
The gas field, located in the Mediterranean, will produce an initial 350 million cubic feet per day, it said.
Discovered in 2015 by Italy’s Eni, the field contains an estimated 30 trillion cubic feet of gas.
Egypt has been seeking to speed up production from recently discovered fields, with an eye to halting imports by 2019 and achieving self-sufficiency.
