EGPC signs partnership agreement with Kuwait Energy for 15% of Iraq’s Seba gas field
The Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation (EGPC) has signed a partnership agreement with Kuwait Energy for the Seba gas field located in southeast Basra, Iraq. The agreement stipulates that EGPC owns 15% of this field. The project is considered the second partnership agreement between EGPC and Kuwait Energy, the first partnership being the Fayhaa petroleum field […]
Dresser-Rand to supply turbine-generator sets for Zohr gas field
• Three SGT-400 gas turbine-generator sets destined for largest natural gas field in the Mediterranean Sea. • Approximately 20 percent more efficient than competing offers. The Dresser-Rand business received an order from Egypt-based Belayim Petroleum Company (Petrobel) for three model SGT-400 industrial gas turbines, including associated electrical generators. The total order value is in the […]
Egypt launches world's biggest LNG tender for 2017/18 supply – sources
Egypt launched the world’s biggest tender for liquefied natural gas (LNG) on Sunday as officials from top trading houses and oil majors converged on Cairo – undeterred by tough new rules forcing them to wait even longer to get paid. After months of speculation and delay, state-run Egypt Natural Gas Holding (EGAS) released the tender […]
Egypt's Parliament calls on Government to review Saudi Aramco agreement, find out why October shipment was suspended
The Saudi company has not informed the government about resupplying Egypt with petroleum. Parliamentary sources said that the Energy Committee intends to call on the Ministry of Petroleum to review the agreement with Saudi Aramco to find out why the petroleum shipment supplied to Egypt was suspended in October. The sources added that they previously […]
“Zohr discovery” (from Eniday.com)
The exciting discovery and development of the Zohr gas field in Egyptian offshore… Download the Eniday podcast “Zohr Discovery” in partnership with Cast4 by main digital audiostore: ITUNES SOUNDCLOUD YOUTUBE (Source: Eniday.com)
The East Mediterranean gas revolution (ABO.net)
By Nicoló Sartori. The recent discoveries give the region an unprecedented opportunity to foster cooperation on energy and its exports, as well as to reach for diplomatic ways to handle the region’s conflicts. The gas discoveries in the East Mediterranean have generated an outburst of enthusiasm, fostering an image of the region as a global […]
Subsea 7 awarded Atoll field contract offshore Egypt
Subsea 7 S.A. announced the award of a substantial* contract, offshore Egypt, by Pharaonic Petroleum Company to be executed at water depths of over 900 metres in the Atoll field. The contract scope includes the engineering, procurement, construction and installation of more than 40 kilometres of rigid pipelines and associated structures for the new Atoll […]
How Eni bet big and won big on Natural Gas off Egypt
A drilling ship working about 120 miles off the Egyptian coast for Eni, the Italian oil company based here, bored into a giant trove of natural gas in July 2015 that turned out to be the largest discovery ever in the Mediterranean Sea and by far the largest by the global petroleum industry that year. […]
Eni completes drilling of 6th Zohr deepwater well
Production tests confirmed reserves increase to more than 30tn cubic feet of gas, says source. The Italian company Eni completed drilling operations in the sixth well in Zohr gas field in the deepwater offshore of the Mediterranean Sea as production tests on its fifth well confirmed that reserves increased to 30tn cubic feet of gas. […]
BP to process 650 mcf/d of North Alexandria gas at Shell’s Burullus processing plant
BP’s agreement with Royal Dutch Shell will see gas produced from North Alexandria project at $0.3 per million feet, says source. BP signed an agreement with Royal Dutch Shell to process 650m cubic feet of gas, produced from its North Alexandria project, at Shell’s Burullus station for $0.3 per million feet. A senior source in […]