The Egypt Oil & Gas (EOG) Committee – Executive Board held a meeting to discuss the structure of the new committee and finalize the committee’s strategy and activities of its task forces for the year 2022.

During the meeting, the committee’s members agreed that the Energy Transition Task Force will work on the sector’s participation in COP 27 in 2022 and prepare a plan to be presented to His Excellency Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources Tarek El Molla. Other task force leaders including Sustainable Development, HSE, and Capacity Building leaders presented to the executive board their plans for 2022.

The Capacity Building Task Force’s plan will include the participation of young professionals from universities and different activity groups (SPE, AAPG, AMAL, etc..) to join and partake in 2022 initiatives.

In addition, the Brownfield Task Force agreed to continue conducting technology transfer workshops in partnership with major companies. Meanwhile, the committee will organize a Safety Awareness Campaign in its plan for 2022 as a part of the HSE Task Force’s activities.

The meeting was held at the Dusit Hotel in New Cairo and was attended by key executives from all major IOC’s and services companies, with also the participation of Osama Mobarez, the Secretary-General of the East Mediterranean Gas Forum (EMGF) and David Chi, EOG Committee Chairman and Vice-President of Apache Corporation & Country Manager for Apache in Egypt, who led the meeting and thanked Mobarez for his participation, in the presence of EOG Founder and CEO Mohamed Fouad.

It is worth mentioning that the committee’s task forces include Sustainable Development; Health, Safety and Environment (HSE), Capacity Building, Brownfield, Digitalization, and recently added Energy Transition.