The field has come on stream five weeks ahead of schedule following the recent installation of the offshore facilities platform, EGDP-1.

BSP is hoping to recover 600 billion cubic feet of gas and about 31.5 million barrels of oil from Egret over a field life of 20 years.

Gas is being transported from Egret through a new 20-inch, 25-kilometre multiphase pipeline to the operator's Ampa-6 offshore complex.

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