Egypt’s Stranded Gas Roundtable

Egypt’s Stranded Gas Roundtable

By: Passante Adel & Lily Leach

In Uptown Cairo on November 19, Egypt Oil & Gas held a roundtable to discuss the vast reserves of stranded gas in Egypt under the patronage of HE Eng. Sherif Ismail Minister of Petroleum. The event gathered industry leaders from the government and its foreign partners – representing the most prominent players and operators in the oil and gas sector in Egypt. The roundtable was chaired by EGAS Vice Chairmen Geol. Mahfouz El Bony; its participants included the former Minister of Petroleum Eng. Abdallah Ghorab, EGAS Vice Chairman Eng. Osama Elbakly, Apache Vice President Thomas Maher, Country Manager of KUFPEC Egypt Mohamed Al Ajeel, Country Manager of Sea Dragon Ahmed Moaaz, and Egypt newcomer Aidan Murphy, the Country Chairman and Managing Director for Shell Egypt.

Stranded gas refers to a reserve of natural gas that has been already been discovered, but remains undeveloped due to commercial, technological, or logistical reasons. The general consensus at the roundtable identified the economic challenges as the most prominent obstacle facing the development of stranded gas, but other barriers were examined.

Many participants expressed ambitions to tackle the issue and offered viable solutions. Eng. Mohamed Fouad, President of Egypt Oil & Gas, opened the event expressing his hopes for a fruitful and productive discussion, hoping the roundtable would achieve its goals and reinforce the cooperation between oil and gas producers and the Egyptian government.

Fouad noted that this roundtable discussion on Egypt’s stranded gas came at the right time to address such changes, as previous meetings and dialogues emphasized the importance of collaboration to achieve stability of the energy markets and provide sufficient oil and gas supplies. He also explained that as the demand for natural gas increases, oil and gas producers have a big part to play in embracing new technologies to optimize the reach to the much needed stranded gas reserves, while the government should ease the path for the investors and producers to achieve their aim.

 

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