On 19 December 2019, the Egyptian Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources announced a new oil discovery in the Western Desert from which an average daily production of 7,000 bbl of oil and 10 MMscf of gas is envisaged. The oil discovery was recently made by Burg El Arab Petroleum Co. after the successful drilling of new field wildcat presumably in the Abu Sennan exploration block, Abu Gharadiq Basin. No further information was disclosed on the side of this announcement.  Burg El Arab Petroleum Co. is a JV between Dover Investment (28%), Kuwait Energy (25%), Global Connect (25%) and United Oil and Gas (replacing Rockhopper, 22.5%).  The Abu Sennan block is a 639 sq km acreage granted to Burg El Arab Petroleum Co. in December 2016. The block was for the first time awarded to EGPC in 1983 with an area of 1075 sq km. Within the initial area, more than 20 oil and 9 gas discoveries have been made over the past 25 years.
Burg El Arab Petroleum Co discovers oil in the Abu Sennan exploration block, Abu Gharadiq Basin