Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources Karim Badawi met with bP’s Executive Vice President for Gas and Low Carbon Energy, William Lin, along with other bp officials, to talk about the company's business progress, its investments plans in Egypt, and the development of its new two major discoveries in the Mediterranean region.
Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources, Karim Badawi, met with Randy Neely, CEO of Capricorn Energy PLC, and Eleanor Rowley, the company's Managing Director in Egypt, in the presence of Salah Abdel Kerim, Chairman of the Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation (EGPC). The meeting discussed the company's activities in its concession areas in the Western Desert of Egypt and its future plans to intensify upstream activities.
The General Petroleum Company (GPC) has started operating the first of three modern 1,000-horsepower drilling rigs, provided by the Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation (EGPC), to intensify drilling operations at the Gharib producing oilfields in the Eastern Desert, as part of the Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources' strategy to increase domestic production. GPC is currently implementing an intensive drilling program, supported and supervised by EGPC, aimed at drilling 75 wells within 12 months. This is expected to add about 7,500 barrels per day (bbl/d) and increase the total production of Ras Gharib fields to 9,000 bbl/d, driven by the efforts of GPC’s engineers and technicians.
Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources, Karim Badawi, met with Marco Villa, the Chief Business Officer (CBO) of the Italian company Technip Energies, and his accompanying delegation. They were joined by Khaled El Badry, the Ministry's Undersecretary for Projects. The meeting discussed the company's activities in Egypt and its plans for the coming period.
The Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources, Karim Badawi, met with a delegation from Huawei, led by Senior Vice President of Huawei and President of Global Marketing, Sales, and Services, Huawei Digital Power, Charles Yang, to explore means to enhance cooperation in areas such as digital transformation, clean energy, and hydrogen.
Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources Karim Badawi met with Mathios Rigas, Chairman and CEO of Energean, and Nicolas Katcharov, CEO and Chairman of Energean International E&P SpA, to discuss advancing cooperation between Egypt's petroleum sector and Energean's concession areas for natural gas production in the Mediterranean Sea.
The Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources, Karim Badawi, held a joint meeting with the Minister of Environment, Yasmine Fouad, and Minister of Civil Aviation, Sameh El-Hefny, to explore coordination mechanisms among the three ministries to produce sustainable aviation fuel (SAF)–a project implemented by the Egyptian Petrochemicals Holding Company (ECHEM) as part of the ministry's green strategy.
ESAF, a $530 million investment project, is expected to produce 120,000 tons of SAF annually, utilizing advanced hydrotreatment technologies.
The Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources, in cooperation with the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), held the second meeting of the Joint Coordination Committee (JCC) for the Project for Capacity Development on Energy Efficiency and Conservation, at its headquarters in Egypt's New Administrative Capital.
The Vice Executive Managing Director For Production and Fields Development of the Egyptian Natural Gas Holding Company (EGAS), Abdel Nasser Khafagy, Chairman of Belayim Petroleum Company (Petrobel), Khaled Mowafy, and representatives of Baker Hughes, have conducted an inspection visit to the Nexans global plant in Halden, Norway, to follow up on the manufacturing of the giant subsea power cable for the southern area of the Zohr Field–a pivotal step in maintaining the sustainability of well operations and production rates from the field.
Egypt Oil and Gas Group (EOG) launched the fourth edition of She Is Energy event on April 14 at the Triumph Luxury Hotel in Cairo, hosting key industry leaders to reflect on the remarkable role of women who are shaping the future of energy and celebrating their accomplishments, while spotlighting work done for them through the Women in Energy Network, which is part of the EOG Committee.
