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The Leviathan No. 4 appraisal well,

Global drilled to a total depth of 16,992ft, encountered 454 net ft of gas pay Deepwater in multiple intervals—the thickest

Deep Water net pay of any well drilled to date at

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Leviathan. This led to an increase in

Middle East the Rachel license. At its discovery, the estimated recoverable gross mean

In the Middle East, Noble Energy the Leviathan gas feld was the most resources of the feld to about 18Tcf. couldn’t be more pleased with its de- prominent feld ever found in the Assessment of pre-FEED is in prog- velopments off Israel. In March, the (evidently under-explored) Levan- ress, with initial production likely to company reported results from its tine Basin. Production is expected to begin in 2016. second Leviathan appraisal well in begin in 2017. In April, Noble announced that its

Tamar natural gas feld off Israel was successfully brought online with all fve subsea wells producing at stable

Visit us at rates, totaling 300MMcf/d. When

OTC Booth combined with existing Mari-B 4317 volumes, the total current sales are nearly 500MMcf/d and are expected to average 700MMcf/d through 2013.

Initial sales began on March 31 as natural gas fowed from the feld to the Tamar platform, and then onward to the Ashdod Onshore Terminal.

The development is designed to de- liver natural gas rates up to 1Bcf/d.

The Tamar development includes fve subsea wells capable of fow- ing 250MMcf/d each. Natural gas will fow from the feld through the longest subsea tieback in the world, more than 90mi. long, to a platform near the existing Mari-B structure.

The Tamar platform is tied into the existing pipeline that delivers natural gas to the Ashdod onshore receiving terminal.

Offshore Egypt, BP wants to close the gap of the domestic gas demand by covering 100% of Egypt’s needs with its West Nile Delta development.

West Nile Delta includes the North

Alexandria, where BP holds 60% and is operator. RWE Dea owns the remaining 40%. In the West Mediter- ranean Deepwater license, BP is the operator with 80% working interest and RWE Dea has 20%. The West

Nile Delta project has been planned to begin commercial operations by

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KBR has been selected by BP to un- ® dertake the second stage of concept

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