Dana Gas, the Middle East's first and largest regional private sector natural gas company, has announced that production from the recently discovered Sondos gas field has delivered outstanding results. The Sondos field, found in the West El Manzala concession in Egypt's Nile Delta region, was discovered in February 2009, with estimated gas reserves of 20 billion cubic feet, and was tested at 11.1 million standard cubic feet per day (mmscfd) of dry gas. It currently has two producing wells, “Sondos-1” and “Sondos-2”, delivering at an average daily rate of 12 mmscfd.