Egyptian Minister of Petroleum, Tarek El Molla, announced the start of pumping natural gas from offshore wells in Zohr field to the onshore processing facility to be treated and injected into the country's natural gas national grid.
The Ministry of Military Production and TBEA Sun Oasis plan to build a solar photovoltaic plant with a generation capacity of 1,000 megawatts (MW) per year
Egypt will decrease its imports of liquefied natural gas (LNG) by three cargoes a month when the Zohr natural gas field comes online.
Production from the Zohr natural gas field—which could begin within days—should permit Egypt to achieve natural gas self-sufficiency in 2018.
Egyptian and Libyan officials met to discuss connecting their' electricity grids and other ways to enhance cooperation in the energy sector.
The World Bank will no longer finance upstream oil and gas projects after 2019.
The Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation (EGPC) sold 550,000 butane cylinders during the past two weeks as the temperature fell and butane consumption increased.
The proposed El Dabaa nuclear plant will begin commercial operations by 2026.
The government anticipates that 8.2 million households will be connected to the natural gas grid by the end of 2017.
The value of petroleum exports rose 20% to reach $1.8 billion in the first quarter of fiscal year (FY) 2017/2018.
