With payments surfacing for its counterparts, Italian energy company Eni said Friday it signed an deal to operate in a license area in Egypt’s Western Desert. Eni said it was strengthening its position in Egypt by signing a concession agreement for work in the Western Desert. The deal follows an international auction held in 2013 by the Egyptian General Petroleum Corp. “This new acquisition adds to the list of exploration successes achieved in the area over the past two years and further strengthen Eni’s position in Egypt, an area of historic and strategic importance for the company,” it said in a statement. Eni is one of the main oil producers in the country. Operating there since 1954, the company said it had an equity production […]