Located in the Abu Madi West licence, Nooros was discovered in the same week as Zohr and is currently producing 160,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day.

This discovery also benefited from Eni’s fast-track, low-cost approach to development and using its own existing facilities. “We used a gas plant (Abu Madi) that was half empty and an (existing) pipeline. The time to market was practically zero,” chief executive Claudio Descalzi told analysts in December.

“After