EGPC signed 3 oil & gas exploration agreements worth $50 million
The Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation (EGPC) has signed oil and gas exploration agreements with three international companies worth a combined USD 50 million, an Oil Ministry official tells Al Borsa. These include a USD 20 million oil and gas exploration agreement with Apex International in the West Badr El Din concession in the Western Desert, […]
OilPrice: New agreements shake up Egypt’s oil & gas market
The latest agreements signed by the Egyptian Ministry of Petroleum has caused recovery in Egypt’s oil and gas sector, world’s leading magazine OilPrice said in a Monday report. The new contracts will be the start of a wide-range campaign to revive the sector, which was hampered over the past few years, OilPrice added. Last week, […]
Egypt to launch new oil exploration tender by end of 2017 – El-Molla
Egypt is planning a new tender for crude discovery and exploration before the end of 2017, Petroleum Minister Tarek El-Molla said Saturday. Egypt will sign soon contracts with Apache Corporation, Apex International Energy, and Shell for five oil exploration blocks in the Western Desert, the minister added. Egypt, which used to be a net energy […]
Egypt is one of the most attractive markets for independent oil companies
That is the view taken by Gulf News, which said that the country is seeing the biggest wave of independents flocking to it in the Middle East. “Egypt is a well-known petroleum province, with a robust local oilfield services market, and strong infrastructure to capture all new production,” the newspaper says. The country has enabled […]
Egypt accepts six oil and gas exploration bids with investments of $200 million
Egypt has accepted six bids for oil and gas exploration worth a total investment of up to $200 million, the Ministry of Petroleum said on Friday. In May, the Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation (EGPC) announced an international tender for 11 oil and natural gas blocks in the Western Desert and Gulf of Suez as Egypt […]