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Egypt's Ministry of Petroleum reviewed BP's drilling and production program on 24 September 2026, reporting progress in a four-well campaign valued at USD 700 million. The program began in April. The ministry said Fayoum-4 had entered production at approximately 80 million cubic feet of gas per day, two years ahead of the planned schedule. That timing comparison is the ministry's reported assessment.
The account identifies the next stage as the Ghorab exploration well, followed by two deepwater wells through Arcius, the venture owned 51% by BP and 49% by XRG. The movement of the rig and the remaining sequence should be kept separate from the producing Fayoum well. The announcement does not establish that the exploration target has already been discovered or that all four wells are now producing.
The distinction matters to project tracking because a campaign can contain different well purposes and completion stages. A producing development well provides a different type of evidence from an exploration target under preparation. The USD 700 million figure describes the reported program investment, not an individual Fayoum well price or cash revenue generated by its daily gas rate. The source does not provide a detailed allocation of expenditure between wells.
For regional well-service analysis, the disclosure gives a campaign scale, reported producing milestone and identified subsequent targets. It does not publish precise well coordinates, a long-term decline profile or a recoverable reserve estimate for each location. Later drilling and operating updates will be needed to assess the remaining work. Keeping program commitments distinct from completed production prevents one successful milestone from being counted as four producing wells or as a guaranteed outcome for the exploration work still ahead.