The two supermajors are 
spending billions of dollars in the expectation of finding enough gas offshore and onshore to justify building liquefaction facilities for export.

“They’re drilling another well,” National Oil Corporation 
chairman Shokri Ghanem said of Shell. “They’ve already drilled a well offshore. They are making some tests for that well.

“From the seismic evaluation, it looks promising, but they have to finish drilling first.