Features | Egypt Oil & Gas - Part 117
International Women’s Day at GUPCO
BP is one of the main sponsors of the International Women’s Day held in the beginning of March. As such, it was proposed that GUPCO host an event to recognize and celebrate the contributions women have made to the oi ...
Fugro SAE: International Company With Egyptian Heart (Pt.2)
Fugro SAE (FSAE) is responsible for Fugro’s survey and subsea activities in Egypt. Benefiting from investment in Egypt over more than 30 years, FSAE has developed a strong capability in the country, allowing delivery ...
A 12 Billion Dollar Promise
“BP to Invest $12 Billion in Egypt,” this is the headline that has caused a media frenzy to blow like wind passing through every news agency in the region. BP has claimed the title for the biggest foreign direct i ...
Yemen’s “Gate of Tears”: the Strategic Red Sea Strait of Bab El Mandeb
Bab El Mandeb has long been a historical and civilizational chokepoint where the shortest trade routes between Europe, North Africa, India, and East Asia can be controlled—or stopped. However, recent events in Yemen, ...
Incentives and Solutions: Egypt’s Oil Recovery Prospects in a Low Price Environment
Oil recovery is a necessity, not a luxury, for an energy-importing nation like Egypt that has a limited number of oil producing wells, most of which are already mature. With a rapidly rising population and a slow pac ...
Optimizing Services
“Optimization is improving something,” explained Miguel Muñoz, a Production Engineer at Apache Egypt, at the start of our interview. The term optimization in its most basic form is, “an act, process, or methodology o ...
The Energy Crisis in Egypt and the Repercussions of Oil Prices
Oil is found mostly in sedimentary rocks (whether sand, shale, clay, or limestone) deposited by rivers and seas in prehistoric times. Besides water, they also carry fine organisms, plants, and organic matter which wh ...
Definitions and Opportunities: Driving Development Through Optimization
Optimization is one of those catchall terms that has taken the business world by storm, not least in the petroleum sector. Even our own newspaper is hosting a convention centered around it. In truth, optimization is ...
