The Egyptian government is aiming to link 684,000 households across 18 governorates to the national gas grid. This is part of a bigger plan that aims to connect 2.3 million households to the grid by 2021. Egypt Oil & Gas talked to experts who are working on the project in order to know more about the project’s technical aspect and the measures needed to make the connection of overpopulated areas become reality.
How do pipeline negotiations play into global politics, economics, and energy security? Egypt Oil & Gas looks at the importance of pipelines in political relations, and how governments look to use them as a tool of foreign policy.
Smart technology is providing the oil and gas industry with unprecedented visibility and control over pipeline infrastructure. On top of this, intelligent integration can help companies reduce their capital and operating expenditure. We look at how the Industrial Internet of Things is revolutionizing the pipeline industry.
Ensuring the safety and the quality of pipelines is one of the main priorities of the oil and gas sector. Egypt Oil & Gas investigates how companies tackle pipeline corrosion.
Conventional oil and gas operations are becoming just one of many different options. In today’s world of diverse technologies, the decision for each project needs more studies, comparisons, and long-term predictions. The varying parameters have changed to include the expected interventions, the duration of workover, zones’ compatibilities, the selection of monitoring systems, as well as the subsurface structures. The compartmentalization strategy has been upgraded from adjacent wells into smart wells all over the field.
The Western Desert contains Egypt’s largest onshore crude deposits. In recent months, much of the attention given to the Egyptian energy sector has been focused on the giant offshore gas discovery of Zohr. However, while by no means as large as Egypt’s Mediterranean gas find, the continued exploitation of the Western Desert for crude oil is a profitable endeavor for the Egyptian energy sector.
At a time when the country is experiencing a boom in its natural gas production, it is understandable if exploring alternative, more expensive sources of energy is perhaps not a major priority of the Egyptian government.
The oil and gas industry holds some of the biggest hazards in operations. Its workers are often exposed to tough working conditions, in addition to heavy and sensitive materials and machines. Yet, most fatalities in the industry are not caused by heavy equipment or errors in complicated processes. Instead and surprisingly, they are mainly caused by driving mistakes.
Oil and natural gas have been among Egypt’s profitable resources for years. The North African country started by tapping fields on land rather than those in its territorial waters. Now, these onshore wells are starting to reach maturity, and industry leaders have begun to use previously unprecedented technologies to tap Egypt’s riches. Companies are now adopting innovative means to produce tight oil and gas, revive onshore brownfields, and maximize the production rates from these resources.
The petroleum market dynamics have exhibited commodity price turbulence over the past few years. The 2014 oil-prices downturn allowed oil-importing countries to lower their expenses and fiscal deficits, while exporting countries suffered losses. The latest oil price rise has enabled the economies of exporting countries to recover, while hurting the economies of oil importers.
