Badawi Appoints New Leaders to Boost Gas Network Management
Karim Badawi, the Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources, has announced new appointments in gas companies to boost their management.
Karim Badawi, the Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources, has announced new appointments in gas companies to boost their management.
The General Petroleum Company (GPC) re-explored brownfields using unconventional methods for the first time, leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) during fiscal year (FY) 2024/25. This led to two discoveries in the Western Desert fields, GPS and GPR, with a total production of 2,700 barrels per day (bbl/d). Additionally, it added a reserve of approximately 62.4 million barrels of oil equivalent (boe) in a mature area where production had ceased for many years, Mohamed Abdel Meguid, GPC Chairman, stated
Karim Badawi, the Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources, has appointed Yasser Salah Eldin as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and General Manager of Jordanian Egyptian FAJR Natural Gas Company.
Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources, Karim Badawi, has announced a round of transfers and assignments that included head of central administration at the Ministry, deputies to CEOs at the Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation (EGPC), as well as chairmen of some petroleum sector companies. The reshuffle aims to support petroleum entities with experienced calibres as well as fill the positions left vacant by recent retirements, said the ministry on Friday.
The general assembly meeting of Nasr Petroleum Company's (NPC), was briefed on the developments in the company's projects especially the new Vapor Recovery Unit (VRU), a technique to capture and recover harmful emissions, together with other plans aiming at increasing the production of its high-value petroleum products, and produce 340,000 tons of butane gas per year (t/y).
Burullus Gas Company has brought two new wells onstream in the deepwater West Delta area of the Mediterranean, with a total daily production of 60 million cubic feet per day (mcf/d) of natural gas, the Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources revealed on Friday. The new wells are expected to help reduce the gap between production and consumption in the country’s local market, particularly during the summer months when demand is typically higher.
Wael Lotfy Hamed Mostafa was appointed as Head of Central Projects Administration at the Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources (MoPMR). The ministry reflected on this appointed as part of the petroleum sector’s keenness to benefit from distinguished competencies and expertise in managing and executing projects both domestically and abroad, with the aim of accelerating the benefits of these projects, achieving added value, and expediting the pace of work.
Within the framework of the Minister of Petroleum's strategy to intensify research and exploration activities and increase production, the Egyptian Natural Gas Holding Company (EGAS) signed four new agreements with Shell, Eni, ARCIUS Energy and Russia's State-Owned Zarubezhneft to explore for gas and oil in the Mediterranean Sea and the Delta. The agreements cover the drilling of 10 wells with a total minimum investment of more than $340 million.
The agreements were formally signed by Mahmoud Abdel Hamid, Chairman of EGAS, in the presence eof Karim Badawi, Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources.Â
In a meeting with Mostafa Madbouly, Egypt’s Prime Minster, Karim Badawi, Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resource, reviewed the expansion plans for various exploration and discovery activities, as well as the efforts to attract more international companies to invest in this promising sector.
Badr El Din Petroleum (BAPTECO) has produced an average of 53,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day (boe/d) this year, drilled 18 wells and carried out 79 well workover and recompletion operations with total investments amounting to $183 million, Chairman Ashraf Abdel Gawad told the company's general assembly chaired by minister of Petroleum, Karim Badawi.