The hydrocarbon industry involves intensive activities that have the potential to bring significant environmental transformations. Fossil fuel burning, incidents of oil spills, and the myriad of damages inflicted by ...
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has recently turned into a buzz word that is trending among all the savvy oil and gas companies all over the world. These companies are frequently caught publicizing the contribu ...
Oil and gas companies’ operations have often sparked the rage of the public protesting against damage that they caused to their environment. This has on myriad of occasions shaken the legitimacy of fossil fuel player ...
By Mark Thurber, Partner, Andrews Kurth LLP
Despite the tsunami of power generation development that is currently underway throughout the world and dependent upon renewable energy technologies, more traditional ther ...
The Egyptian Gas Association in collaboration with Andrews Kurth LLP Middle East, and Open Chance & Associates organized a two day training program International Oil and Gas Law and Contracts, held at the Intercontin ...
Cost reductions in the oil sector seem to hit hardest human resources (HR) departments. In Egypt, this practice is argued by many to be detrimental to the companies themselves. Others point out that this approach may ...
Offshore drilling has been full of booms, busts, baulks, and boondoggles. Along with onshore exploration, countries of the Middle East, Africa, North America, and Asia have resorted to drilling in deep waters to boos ...
By Basma Mostafa
The entire oil and gas industry was shaken to the core, when oil prices began tumbling in mid 2014 after trading above $100 a barrel, but it was the upstream sector that bore the brunt of the dramat ...
At the time ENG. SALEM HASSAN ABDALLAH joined Suez Oil Company (SUCO) as its Chairman, the oil prices witnessed a major downfall, which “has become a serious problem for all the companies,” as he said in an exclusive ...
The Oil & Gas Year (TOGY), in collaboration with Egyptian Gas Association (EGA), organized the Second Strategic Roundtable, held on Sunday 15th of May. The discussion shed light on ‘Unlocking Egypt’s Energy Potential ...