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Category: Egypt

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  • Egypt
  • Israel
  • Natural Gas Supply

Egypt And Israel Look To Capitalize On Natural Gas Resources

The Eastern Mediterranean in a decade went from an ’empty sea’ towards one of the most promising new frontiers of the global oil and gas industry. The Levant basin contains Continue Reading

Posted On : 27 Jan 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Egypt
  • Iraq

Egypt And Iraq Sign Landmark Oil Deal

Egypt and Iraq have signed an oil-for-reconstruction plan this December, expected to come into effect once constitutional procedures have been completed. This deal marks the start of several joint projects Continue Reading

Posted On : 17 Dec 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Egypt
  • Russia

Why Russia Is Pushing Unneeded Nuclear Power Plants On Egypt

In recent years, Russia and China have been facing off to spread their nuclear power dominion to a new, huge, and vastly untapped market: Africa. The two nuclear power giants Continue Reading

Posted On : 23 Sep 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Egypt

‘Important’ gas project to be revealed as six east Med states launch forum: Egyptian minister

An “important” regional natural gas project will be revealed soon, Egypt’s energy minister said Sept. 22, as six east Mediterranean states and the Palestinian National Authority launched a Cairo-based gas Continue Reading

Posted On : 23 Sep 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Egypt
  • Natural Gas Supply

Six Countries Form Mediterranean Gas Group

 Greece, Italy, Egypt, Israel and two other countries will form a permanent organization to promote co-operation over natural gas in the Eastern Mediterranean. Turkey, which has raised tensions by exploring Continue Reading

Posted On : 23 Sep 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Egypt

Egypt boosts gas output by 12.4% to record level in fiscal 2019-20

Egypt boosted its gas production by 12.4% on the year to a record 7.2 billion scf/d in the fiscal year 2019-20 (July-June) and is undertaking new exploration activities, the CEO Continue Reading

Posted On : 21 Sep 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Egypt

Oil Majors Discover Significant Gas Field In Egyptian Waters

European majors Eni, BP, and Total have successfully tested a new natural gas discovery in Egypt’s shallow waters, the Italian company said on Tuesday, commenting on its find that adds Continue Reading

Posted On : 29 Jul 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Egypt
  • Ethiopia

Tensions rise on the Nile over Africa’s largest dam

Egypt, Ethiopia, and Sudan are engaged in last-ditch talks to resolve a dispute over Addis Ababa’s construction of a giant dam on the river Nile that Cairo fears could lead Continue Reading

Posted On : 8 Jul 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Egypt
  • Libya

Egypt threatens military action in Libya if Turkish-backed forces seize Sirte

Egypt’s leader Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has threatened to intervene militarily in neighbouring Libya if Turkish-backed forces capture Sirte, a strategic port and gateway to important oil  terminals. The warning adds Continue Reading

Posted On : 22 Jun 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Egypt
  • Ethiopia

Ethiopia Dam News: Tussle With Egypt Over Nile River Falter

A last-ditch attempt to resolve a decade-long dispute between Egypt and Ethiopia over a huge new hydropower dam on the Nile has failed, raising the stakes in what – for Continue Reading

Posted On : 19 Jun 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Egypt
  • Solar

This Emerging Economy Bets Big On Solar

Egypt’s total of 1173 recorded Covid-19 cases and 78 deaths, as of April 5, places Africa’s third-most populous country significantly below the global per capita averages for both counts as Continue Reading

Posted On : 7 Apr 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Egypt
  • Ethiopia
  • Sudan

U.S. says it will keep engaging Egypt, Ethiopia, Sudan on Blue Nile dam

The United States will continue to work with Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan until they sign an accord on a giant Blue Nile hydropower dam, after failing to secure signatures from Continue Reading

Posted On : 29 Feb 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Egypt

For Thousands of Years, Egypt Controlled the Nile. A New Dam Threatens That.

 The Egyptian farmer stood in his dust-blown field, lamenting his fortune. A few years ago, wheat and tomato-filled greenhouses carpeted the land. Now the desert was creeping in. “Look,” he Continue Reading

Posted On : 10 Feb 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Egypt

Is Egypt’s Energy Hub Dream Falling Apart?

Since the end of the 1990s Egypt has dreamt of becoming an East Mediterranean gas and energy hub. The discoveries offshore in the Nile Delta at the end of the Continue Reading

Posted On : 3 Feb 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Egypt
  • Exxon

Exxon Signs Deals With Egypt For Oil, Gas Exploration in East Mediterranean

ExxonMobil and Egypt have signed two oil and gas exploration deals in the Eastern Mediterranean, the Egyptian Ministry of Petroleum said on Tuesday, weeks after Exxon said it had secured Continue Reading

Posted On : 29 Jan 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Coal
  • Egypt

Egypt 2019 thermal coal imports rise 31% on cement sector demand

Egypt imported 6.32 million mt of thermal coal in 2019, up 31% on the previous year, according to official data from the Port of Alexandria, boosted by strong demand from Continue Reading

Posted On : 17 Jan 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Egypt
  • Exxon

ExxonMobil expands upstream footprint in Egypt with two offshore blocks

Oil company ExxonMobil has expanded its upstream acreage in Egypt after it acquired two offshore blocks, boosting its footprint in the gas-rich Eastern Mediterranean basin. Receive daily email alerts, subscriber Continue Reading

Posted On : 31 Dec 2019 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Egypt
  • Israel

Israel approves final permits to allow first gas exports to Egypt

Gas supplies by pipeline from Israel to Egypt are on course to begin by the end of 2019 after Israeli energy minister Yuval Steinitz on Monday signed the final permits Continue Reading

Posted On : 18 Dec 2019 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Egypt

Shell’s Big Strategy Shift In Egypt

Oil supermajor Royal Dutch Shell has appointed investment bank Citi to run the $1 billion (£781.5m) sale of its oil and gas assets in Egypt’s Western Desert. Sources told Reuters Continue Reading

Posted On : 18 Nov 2019 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Egypt

NatGas Exports to Egypt from Leviathan Could Start in June: Delek

Israel’s NatGas Exports to Egypt from Leviathan Could Start in June From the Jerusalem Post Israeli energy company Delek Drilling expects to commence commercial gas exports to Egypt by the Continue Reading

Posted On : 6 Jun 2019 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Egypt
  • Solar

Egypt expects giant solar park to be fully operational in 2019

Egypt expects the 1.6 gigawatt solar park it is building in the south of the country to be operating at full capacity in 2019, the investment ministry said in a Continue Reading

Posted On : 6 May 2019 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Egypt

Egypt’s Huge Fuel Subsidy Cuts Could Spark Protests

Egypt plans to slash fuel and electricity subsidies in its 2019/2020 financial year, the finance ministry’s draft budget shows, but raising fuel prices closer to international levels could turn out Continue Reading

Posted On : 18 Apr 2019 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Egypt

Egypt to slash fuel subsidies as it nears end of IMF program

Egypt will remove subsidies on most energy products by June 15, it told the International Monetary Fund in a January letter released by the IMF on Saturday as part of Continue Reading

Posted On : 6 Apr 2019 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Egypt

LNG Is Finally Taking Off In Egypt

What a difference just a few years can make. After more than a decade of uncertainty for Egypt’s natural gas sector, leading even to importing LNG for years, Cairo is Continue Reading

Posted On : 28 Mar 2019 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Egypt
  • Israel

Procedures for Israeli gas exports to Egypt not yet complete: source

All the requirements needed for the start of Israeli gas exports to Egypt are not yet in place, an Israeli energy ministry source said, with first flows now not expected Continue Reading

Posted On : 23 Mar 2019 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Egypt
  • Israel

Israel And Egypt Compete To Become New Energy Hub

The discovery of the giant gas field Tamar of the coast of Israel in 2009 was the beginning of a new period for the Eastern Mediterranean as an energy hot Continue Reading

Posted On : 21 Mar 2019 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Egypt

Egypt Is Shaping Up To Become A Real Energy Hub

Egypt’s oil and gas future looks very bright. The large scale concessions awarded during the EGYPS 2019 conference in Cairo, 11-13 February, shows the appetite of IOCs, such as Shell, Continue Reading

Posted On : 18 Feb 2019 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Egypt

Egypt plugs hub status as Shell, Eni, Exxon win energy concessions

Royal Dutch Shell, Eni, BP and Exxon Mobil were among the winners in one of Egypt’s largest-ever oil and gas exploration tenders on Tuesday, as the country looks to sustain Continue Reading

Posted On : 13 Feb 2019 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Egypt

Egypt to invest $9 billion refineries’ upgrade over four years: minister

Egypt plans to upgrade six oil refineries at a cost of about $9 billion over four years to increase domestic production to 41 million tonnes a year, the petroleum minister Continue Reading

Posted On : 21 Jan 2019 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Egypt

Egypt Feels The Squeeze Of Higher Oil Prices

Thanks to a huge natural gas discovery off its coasts, Egypt has just become self-sufficient in this key energy source, welcoming what it hopes to be its last liquefied natural Continue Reading

Posted On : 5 Oct 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Egypt

Egypt signs oil, gas exploration deal with Shell, Petronas worth about $1 billion: statement

Egypt has signed a deep-water oil and gas exploration deal with Royal Dutch Shell and Malaysia’s Petronas worth around $1 billion for 8 wells in the country’s West Nile Delta, Continue Reading

Posted On : 15 Sep 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Egypt

Egypt’s Giant Zohr Gas Field Boosts Production Six-fold

The huge Zohr gas field offshore Egypt has increased its production six-fold since it started production in January this year, Egypt’s Petroleum Minister Tarek el-Molla said on Thursday. Production at Continue Reading

Posted On : 14 Sep 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Egypt

Egypt Ordered To Pay $2B To JV Over Natural Gas Row

Union Fenosa Gas, a joint venture of Spain’s Naturgy and Italy’s Eni, operates the Damietta liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant in Egypt. The company took the country to court in Continue Reading

Posted On : 5 Sep 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Egypt

In Egypt’s Vision of Energy Independence, Egyptians Pay More

As a result, Royal Dutch Shell PLC, BP PLC and Eni SpA have invested billions of dollars in Egypt in recent years, including the Mediterranean Sea’s biggest natural-gas field off Continue Reading

Posted On : 28 Aug 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Egypt

Egypt Aims For Natural Gas Dominance In The Mediterranean

The natural market gas in the Eastern Mediterranean is in full ebullition – with Egypt determined to be the center of this regional marketplace. The country faces challenges, including maintaining Continue Reading

Posted On : 20 Aug 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Egypt

Eni building up its position in Egypt

From an exploration license offshore to a contract extension near the Western Desert, Italian energy company Eni said it’s strengthening its position in Egypt. The company stated Tuesday that its Continue Reading

Posted On : 15 Aug 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Egypt
  • Israel

Egypt To Start Importing Israeli Gas For Re-export In Early 2019

An Egyptian company is set to begin importing gas from Israeli offshore fields in the first quarter of 2019 and to re-export it as part of its plan to become Continue Reading

Posted On : 8 Aug 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Egypt
  • Israel

Egyptian company to start gas imports from Israel next year, sources say

 An Egyptian company plans to start importing gas from Israel for re-export in the first quarter of 2019, sources in the country’s energy sector said on Sunday, under agreements signed Continue Reading

Posted On : 6 Aug 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Egypt

Egyptian natural gas prospects improving

Africa-focused SDX Energy said Monday it achieved success at an emerging natural gas reservoir that could be in production by the fourth quarter. The company in June announced the discovery Continue Reading

Posted On : 17 Jul 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Egypt

New discovery highlights Egypt’s potential as emerging oil producer

A new oil discovery in the Western Desert of Egypt could unlock a new area for productivity gains in the country, Italian energy company Eni said Monday. Eni said it Continue Reading

Posted On : 10 Jul 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Egypt

World Bank Backs Egypt To Become Regional Oil, Gas Trading Hub

The World Bank supports Egypt’s efforts to be a regional oil and gas trading hub, as several new gas projects started up recently in the Mediterranean country, the Egyptian Ministry Continue Reading

Posted On : 3 Jul 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Egypt
  • Saudi Arabia

Saudi Aramco to supply Egyptian refineries for another six months: minister

Saudi Aramco, the world’s largest oil producer, agreed to supply Egyptian refineries with crude oil for another six months from July, Egypt’s Petroleum Minister Tarek El Molla said on Tuesday. Continue Reading

Posted On : 19 Jun 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Egypt

More gas production expected from Egypt

New natural gas production should come from Egypt by the end of the year, SDX Energy said after announcing a new gas discovery on Monday. The company said it found Continue Reading

Posted On : 19 Jun 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Egypt

Egypt raises gasoline prices by up to 50 percent

Egypt raised gasoline prices by up to 50 percent, the oil ministry said on Saturday, under an IMF reform plan that calls for the slashing of state subsidies on some Continue Reading

Posted On : 16 Jun 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Egypt

Determinations expected soon on Egyptian oil

Results from a drilling operation announced Thursday in the Gulf of Suez could dictate the next steps for oil exploitation, regionally-focused SDX Energy said. SDX announced the start of an Continue Reading

Posted On : 15 Jun 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Egypt

More gas coming from mega field offshore Egypt

Natural gas production from the largest field ever discovered off the coast of Egypt is on pace for a 9 percent increase in output, Italy’s Eni said Thursday. Eni said Continue Reading

Posted On : 11 May 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Egypt

Egypt Could Become Europe’s Next Big Energy Hub

Egypt’s oil and gas future has been looking bleak for years, as the impact of the Arab Spring, the emergence of a Muslim Brotherhood government and a military coup by Continue Reading

Posted On : 27 Apr 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Egypt

Egypt: The Next Natural Gas Hotspot

In February, Noble Energy and its partners reached an agreement with the Egyptian company Dolphinus Holdings to sell gas from offshore Israel to Egypt, a deal that could jumpstart a Continue Reading

Posted On : 22 Mar 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Egypt

BP To Sell Oilfields In Egypt To Shift Focus To Natural Gas

British Petroleum has begun to sell off its mature oil fields in Egypt to shift its focus to developing the country’s large natural gas reserves, according to a new report Continue Reading

Posted On : 16 Mar 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Egypt
  • Israel

Noble Energy, Israel’s Delek to Supply Gas to Egypt in $15 Billion Deal

Investors in Israel’s natural-gas fields agreed to supply an Egyptian company with gas valued at $15 billion, a deal that will build on growing ties between once-hostile neighbors that now Continue Reading

Posted On : 20 Feb 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple

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