CAIRO- BP's Egypt Giza and Fayoum fields, part of its West Nile Delta Development, are expected to hit 700 million cubic feet of gas per day by April, Egyptian Petroleum Minister Tarek El Molla said on Monday.

BP announced earlier on Monday that the second stage of the West Nile Delta had begun production. It said output at several fields in the area would help push production to almost 1.4 billion cubic feet per day this year. urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nFWN20609O

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