MILAN, Italy—Eni SpA has made "a new, significant" natural gas discovery off the coast of Sicily, the Italian gas and oil company said Tuesday.
The find was made in the Cassiopea 1 field in the Sicilian Strait 22 kilometers (14 miles) off Agrigento. The field is 60-percent owned by Eni and 40-percent by Edison.
Preliminary tests show production of 190,000 cubic meters of gas a day, which Eni said confirms the high potential of the Sicilian Strait deep offshore area, which also includes the Panda and Argo fields.
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