埃及EGAS将在地中海实施最大地震油气勘探项目
中国石化新闻网讯 据国外媒体6月27日开罗报道，埃及天然气控股公司（EGAS）日前在开罗表示，EGAS将在地中海实施有史以来最大的地震油气勘探项目，埃及希望通过实施这个项目来寻求获得能够吸引全球勘探公司的地震数据。
EGAS说，该公司日前与挪威石油地质服务公司（PGS）签署了一项有关在地中海埃及一侧海域西部进行二维和三维扫描测量的协议。但是，EGAS没有提及这笔交易的价值。
地震勘探公司将通过从拖过水面的电缆获得来自岩石的声波反射来搜索油气藏。
EGAS主管在一份声明中表示，这项协议是增加埃及国内天然气产量计划的一部分。EGS计划通过加强搜索和勘探作业以及对那些此前未勘探过的地区实施国际拍卖方式来增加埃及国内的天然气产量。
他说，埃及大约80%的天然气储量蕴藏在埃及地中海领海的东部和西部，埃及的勘探作业通常在这些地区内进行。
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原文如下：
EGAS to Conduct Mediterranean's Largest Seismic Exploration Project
World Oil & Gas News
Saturday, June 27, 2015
CAIRO
Egypt's state-owned gas company EGAS will carry out the largest seismic oil and gas exploration project in the Mediterranean, seeking data that could attract global exploration companies, it said on Thursday.
EGAS said it has signed a deal with Norwegian seismic surveyor PGS to conduct two and three-dimensional scans in the western zone of Egypt's territorial Mediterranean waters. It did not mention the value of the deal.
Seismic explorers search for oil and gas deposits under the sea by bouncing sound waves off rock from cables towed across the water.
The deal is part of a plan to increase Egypt's domestic production of natural gas by intensifying search and exploration operations as well as conducting international auctions in areas that have not been explored previously, head of EGAS Khaled Abdel Badie said in a statement.
About 80 percent of Egyptian natural gas reserves are in the eastern and central zones of Egypt's territorial waters in the Mediterranean, where exploration traditionally takes place, he said.
