Gas from Zohr to be tested within days -El Molla

Also set to help on the balance of payments front: The Oil Ministry will begin test production from the Zohr natural gas field “in the coming few days,” according to a ministry statement carried by Bloomberg. “Authorities are pumping gas from the national distribution system to test pipelines in preparation for trial production from the offshore field … Output will gradually increase until mid-2018, with the first phase of the project initially yielding about 350 mcf per day,” Minister Tarek El Molla says.