CAIRO- Egypt hopes to reach a peak production level of 3 billion cubic feet per day of gas at its giant Mediterranean gas field Zohr by the end of 2019, Petroleum Minister Tarek El Molla said on Monday.

Egypt said this month that Zohr, discovered by Eni in 2015, had reached 2.1 billion cubic feet per day of production. 

Egypt is working "to accelerate and bring up the production of Zohr to its maximum of more than 3 bcfs ... in the year 2019," Molla told an energy forum in Cairo.

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