LONDON, March 9 (Reuters) - BP has made a secondlarge gas discovery off Egypt as part of a concession estimatedto contain more than 5 trillion cubic feet, the energy companyannounced on Monday.
BP Egypt's Atoll-1 is a deepwater exploration well locatedaround 80 kilometres north of Egypt's Damietta and is thecountry's deepest well ever drilled, BP said.
The company drilled the well at 6.4 kilometres depth andexpects to go another kilometre deeper.
"The Atoll discovery is a great outcome for our second wellin this core exploration programme in the East Nile Delta," saidHesham Mekawi, BP North Africa regional president. (Reporting by Karolin Schaps; editing by Jason Neely)