The National Oil and Gas Authority (Noga) has commenced drilling of the first exploratory well in Offshore Block 1, an area of over 2,800 sq km in the northern territorial waters of Bahrain with a water depth ranging from 10 metres to 70 metres. This came as part of the Exploration and Production Sharing Agreement signed on May 1, 2019 between the Kingdom, represented by Noga, and the Italian company ...