{"id":11847,"date":"2022-02-17T07:27:42","date_gmt":"2022-02-17T07:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/?p=11847"},"modified":"2022-02-17T07:27:42","modified_gmt":"2022-02-17T07:27:42","slug":"egypt-dragon-oil-announces-first-oil-find-in-gulf-of-suez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/egypt-dragon-oil-announces-first-oil-find-in-gulf-of-suez\/","title":{"rendered":"EGYPT: Dragon Oil announces first oil find in Gulf of Suez"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dubai government-owned Dragon Oil has made its first oil discovery in Egypt&#8217;s Gulf of Suez on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The discovery is one of the largest in the area in the past 20 years, and the field could contain around 100 million barrels in reserves.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement was made on the sidelines of the now-running Egypt Petroleum Show (EGYPS) 2022. Dragon Oil in 2019 acquired BP\u2019s stake at the Gulf of Suez Oil Company (GUPCO).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dubai government-owned Dragon Oil has made its first oil discovery in Egypt&#8217;s Gulf of Suez on Tuesday. The discovery is one of the largest in the area in the past &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/egypt-dragon-oil-announces-first-oil-find-in-gulf-of-suez\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":11849,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7442,7446,11],"tags":[346,9516,709,7609,9517],"class_list":["post-11847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-countries","category-north-africa","category-top-news","tag-bp","tag-dragon-oil","tag-egypt","tag-gulf-of-suez","tag-gupco","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/dragon-oil.jpg?fit=570%2C320&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5JWkQ-355","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":14672,"url":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/egypt-dragon-oil-cstrikes-oil-in-gulf-of-suez\/","url_meta":{"origin":11847,"position":0},"title":"EGYPT: Dragon Oil Strikes Oil in Gulf of Suez","author":"","date":"February 3, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"The drilling of the exploration well \"East Crystal-1\" in the Gulf of Suez, operated by the Emirati Dragon Oil Company, through the joint operations company Jabco, have been successful according to he Egyptian Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources. 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