- Cyprus MECI Hydrocarbons Serviceprimary
- Eni, Calypso-1 discovery releaseprimary2018-02-08
What has been published about the volume
documents first, newest first — these do not all agree- ~1 tcfAs reportedRelayed remark2022-09-13the low end of a downside scenario — the report says Calypso "could contain as little as 28–42 Bcm", and the footnote carrying the personal communication sits on the preceding sentence, so the attribution itself is an inference from the paragraph. The same report’s table note says "There is no official reserve announcement"Relayed by Columbia SIPA/CGEP, "Eastern Mediterranean Deepwater Gas to Europe" — the figure attributed by the report’s own footnote to a personal communication (Charles Ellinas)
- 6–8 tcfAs reportedRelayed remark2018-02-13Calypso-1, five days after the discovery and before any appraisal. The 6–8 figure was the journalist’s: asked whether the field holds around 6 to 8 tcf, Descalzi answered "It could be more or in that range… for sure it cannot be less but we have to understand it". Eni never volunteered itRelayed by Eni chief executive Claudio Descalzi, answering a question at an industry event in Cairo — Cyprus Mail
None of these is a published figure for this field, so this site states none.
How this figure compares
bars are quoted figures — the categories beside them are not interchangeable† marks a published resource figure — the panel at the top of this page and the rows above — with no primary source on file. It covers those figures and nothing else. Every other number on this page — in the prose, the milestones, the development notes and the answers — is outside it, and many of those have no source recorded at all and carry no mark either, so the absence of a mark says nothing about them. Where a field has no published figure, the absence is explained in the text and cannot be marked.
A 2C contingent resource, a gas-in-place figure and a two-field hub estimate measure different things and are never summed here. What each category means →
Overview
Second discovery in the Cyprus EEZ, announced by Eni in February 2018 as an extension of the Zohr carbonate play. Early media estimates of 6–8 tcf were never confirmed; current industry reporting (2025–26) puts the resource at roughly 1 tcf, officially still "under evaluation". A candidate for a second-phase Block 6 development cluster with Zeus, contingent on Cronos being built first.
Development Status
Initial discovery confirmed through exploration drilling.
Ownership
Project Timeline
Wells
Consortium
Other Discoveries in Block 6
Located in
Technical Data
- Discovery
- 2018
- Water Depth
- 2,074m
- Resource
- — No figure published
- Coordinates
- 33.53°N, 31.78°E
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