Features | Egypt Oil & Gas - Part 112
Efficiency Plan: Resolving Egypt’s Electricity Crisis
Egypt has committed itself to generate 20% of its energy from renewable sources by 2020, a target that the country’s renewables experts have gladly endorsed. Nonetheless, these self-same experts argue that “energy ef ...
SOLAR POWER & POLICY: Renewable Solutions for Egypt’s Electricity Crisis
It appears that the renewable energy industry in Egypt previously had been managed in a similar way as other sectors in the country, such as transportation or retail. Analogies with the taxi transportation system may ...
The Legal Reality of the ICC Ruling Against Egypt
On December 3rd 2015, the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) announced its ruling on the arbitration claim submitted by Israel Electric Company (IEC) against the Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation (EGPC), th ...
Coal for Energy: A Future or a Roadblock?
During the climate talks in Paris in early December, countries agreed to limit their carbon dioxide emissions. Several European countries have ambitious plans to close their coal-fired power plants. Coal, a large con ...
Egypt’s Nuclear Program: More Questions than Answers
On November 19th, President Abdul Fattah Al-Sisi announced that Egypt’s “long dream” of nuclear energy had come true. The Egyptian nuclear program, initiated during the Nasser presidency in 1955, is finally taking a ...
Electricity in Egypt: The Whole Picture
One of the first sentences that a non Arabic speaker learns upon moving to Egypt is probably ‘Mafish kaharaba’, or “there is no electricity”. In summer, especially, and quite notably since the Revolution, Egypt has b ...
Service Companies: Between Innovation and Oil Prices
An Interview with Baker Hughes Vice President, Jerome Jammal, to explore the pressure of dropping oil prices on the current climate for service companies.
A LOW OIL PRICE WORLD:Driving A Creative Approach to Investment in the Industry
With a lower for longer oil price prediction, and mounting concerns regarding the potential cost of decommissioning, striking deals in the upstream market remains extremely challenging, yet possible.
