Biggest discovery of the year in the sphere of gas

Let’s start with the world news, we continue to follow the discoveries of new oil and gas fields in the world. This time, two large companies, BP And Kosmos Energy, distinguished themselves.

Thanks to their efforts, Mauritania was in the top three between Guyana and Russia, made this year comparable marine exploration discoveries.

Drilled 125 km off the Moorish coast, at a water depth of 2.51 km and a total length of 5,266 km, the exploration well Orca-1, discovered large reserves of natural gas. Rystad Energy (a Norwegian analytical company) named the Orca field as the largest and deepest gas discovery of 2019. The recoverable reserves of the new field in Mauritania are approximately 1.3 billion barrels of oil equivalent.

By the way, the shelf in the number of discovered deposits and the amount of discovered hydrocarbon resources was in the lead for almost the whole of 2019.