Indian state-owned oil firm Gujarat State Petroleum Corporation (GSPC) has hit a dry hole in its Mediterranean Sea exploration lease after investing $52 million in the drilling operation. The operation came in the context of GSPC's 2011-2012 exploration plan.
Agiba Petroleum Company has concluded the drilling of two new developmental wells in the company's Western Desert lease, the ARCADIA-6 well and the AGHAR 4-17. The operations come in accordance with the company's drilling plan for the 2011-2012 fiscal year.
Suez Oil Company (SUCO) has concluded drilling ZB-24 ST-1, a new developmental well in the company's Zeit Bay Development lease in the Eastern Desert. The operation comes in the context of SUCO's development plan for the 2011-2012 fiscal year.
Egyptian private equity firm Citadel Capital said on Thursday it had narrowed its net loss in 2011 after reducing the size of writedowns of underperforming assets.
Egypt was once an exporter of oil and gas, but now it is struggling to meet its own energy needs.
The growth in energy consumption is a response to the country's economic expansion, industrialization, and change in the people's lifestyle.
Egyptian General Petroleum Corp. and Egyptian Natural Gas Holding Co. filed a request for arbitration against East Mediterranean Gas Co. over a deal to supply natural gas to Israel, EGPC's chairman said.
Egypt may gradually scrap subsidies on oil products by 2018, introducing coupons for gasoline and diesel as part of the phaseout, the independent newspaper Al Masry Al Youm reported, citing unidentified officials.
Egypt's petroleum ministry is struggling to keep its spending under tabs. Now overspending threatens one of the most important projects in the nation: the contract for natural gas.
El Paso Corp. (EP) , the pipeline company being bought by Kinder Morgan Inc. (KMI), has agreed to sell its oil and natural-gas fields in Egypt to an unidentified buyer, reducing its first-quarter results by about $62 million.