Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources Karim Badawi has held a meeting at the Ministry’s headquarters in the New Administrative Capital with a number of leaders from the Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation (EGPC) and the Ministry.

The meeting discussed ways to advance work to confront the challenges related to oil and gas production activities as well as key measures to ramp up production. It also touched on work to improve the productivity of oil and gas fields and achieve new discoveries.

At the beginning of the meeting, Badawi emphasized that achieving growth in Egypt’s oil and gas resources is a primary objective, given their importance as the country’s main energy sources. This growth is essential to meet the needs of citizens, particularly in providing electrical energy.

Badawi highlighted that the oil and gas sector realizes the importance of its influential role in driving economic growth in all sectors, which is based primarily on energy as an engine for economic development.

This requires consolidating all efforts and working together as a single work team to employ all ideas, expertise and technological methods to confront the challenges of natural decline in production fields, stop it and return production rates to increase, the minister added.

Badawi stated that human resources in all petroleum sites are the main nerve to achieving the goals of increasing petroleum production. This requires the support and motivation to work as efficiently as possible to implement plans to increase production with the utmost effectiveness and support the cadres responsible for planning and developing production programs to use the optimal solutions and methods to improve and increase production.

The Minister pointed out the importance of the safety system in production fields and sites within the framework of providing a safe working environment

Badawi also highlighted the importance of transparency and identifying all challenges, while at the same time exploiting all positive components and factors to work on solving them through concerted efforts between all the different work sectors within the petroleum entities, which play complementary roles to each other.