Italian oil industry company Eni discovered a natural gas field in Abu Madi, 120 km north-east of Alexandria city, Al Bawaba News reported Monday. Ministry of Petroleum announced that the company reported that it discovered the field at a depth of 3,600 meters in the sandy layer of Egypt's Delta. The company estimated that the new feild would provide about 15 billion cubic meters of natural gas and natural gas condensate, pointing out that it is expected to put the new discovery on the production plan during the next two months. Eni has been operating in Egypt since more than 60 years through its subsidiary company IOC which is one of the major producers of petroleum in Egypt with a production up to 180 thousand barrels of oil equivalent per day.