{"id":189177,"date":"2025-01-21T13:31:29","date_gmt":"2025-01-21T11:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-exxonmobil-finds-major-gas-reserves-in-egypts-mediterranean-waters\/"},"modified":"2025-01-21T13:31:29","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T11:31:29","slug":"egypt-exxonmobil-finds-major-gas-reserves-in-egypts-mediterranean-waters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-exxonmobil-finds-major-gas-reserves-in-egypts-mediterranean-waters\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt: ExxonMobil Finds Major Gas Reserves in Egypt&#8217;s Mediterranean Waters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"1\"><em>TLDR<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Exxon Mobil Corporation (XOM) has made a significant natural gas discovery in the Mediterranean Sea off Egypt&#8217;s northern coastline<\/li>\n<li>The Nefertari-1 exploratory well, located in the North Marakia Block about five miles offshore, revealed gas-bearing reservoirs<\/li>\n<li>Egypt&#8217;s gas production has dwindled to its lowest levels since 2017, compelling the country to import LNG at levels unseen in six years<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"59\">Exxon Mobil Corporation (XOM) has made a significant natural gas discovery in the Mediterranean Sea&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202501210017.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Egypt\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/egypt\/\">Egypt<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TLDR Exxon Mobil Corporation (XOM) has made a significant natural gas discovery in the Mediterranean Sea off Egypt&#8217;s northern coastline The Nefertari-1 exploratory well, located in the North Marakia Block about five miles offshore, revealed gas-bearing reservoirs Egypt&#8217;s gas production has dwindled to its lowest levels since 2017, compelling the country to import LNG at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":189178,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[258,256,4697,415,6989,6490,13869,7168,7373,4774,257,11008,254,7109],"class_list":["post-189177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-egypt","tag-egypt-news","tag-egypts","tag-exxonmobil","tag-finds","tag-gas","tag-major","tag-mediterranean","tag-news","tag-reserves","tag-south-africa-today","tag-waters"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}