Apache Reports Business as Usual in Egypt

• Sunday, 30th January 2011
• by Egypt Oil & Gas

Apache Corporation confirms its operations and oil and gas production remain unaffected by current events in Egypt. The companye continue to monitor developments as they occur.

Gas discovery for RWE Dea in North El Amriya concession

• Wednesday, 26th January 2011
• by Egypt Oil & Gas

RWE Dea Egypt announced that it made a gas discovery in its own operated North El Amriya concession. The successful testing of the reservoir opens chances of further future discoveries in the license.

Upper Egypt oil fields to attract investment-oil

• Sunday, 23rd January 2011
• by Egypt Oil & Gas

Egypt's Oil Ministry said it expected an influx of new investment and agreements with international companies for further oil research and exploration in seven of Upper Egypt's pristine areas.

West Delta Deep Marine Phase 7 Enters Operations

• Thursday, 20th January 2011
• by Egypt Oil & Gas

BG Egypt today announced the start of incremental gas production on 19 January 2011 through the first part of Phase 7 of the West Delta Deep Marine (WDDM) Concession (BG Group 50%, PETRONAS 50%). This represents another successful milestone in the phased development of WDDM.

Drilling update on exploration well WKO-X1 in West Kom Ombo, Egypt

• Wednesday, 19th January 2011
• by Egypt Oil & Gas

Energean Oil & Gas provides an update on the drilling of WKO-1X in the West Kom Ombo Block located in Upper Egypt covering a total area of 31,521 km2. The WKO-1X frontier exploration well reached a total depth of 3,253 feet, ahead of budget in terms of both time and costs.

NORPETCO: $0.5m for technical studies

• Wednesday, 12th January 2011
• by Egypt Oil & Gas

North Bahariya Petroleum Co. (NORPETCO) prepares for conducting seismic and geophysical studies for the water reservoirs of its wells. The process comes for increasing the number of wells to reach the number of seven which will be drilled during the current year within NORPETCO's concession in the Western Desert.

PetroAmir to invest $12 million in the GoS

• Wednesday, 12th January 2011
• by Egypt Oil & Gas

Petro Amir prepares for the beginning of its water injection project, in the North West Gemsa Concession, the Gulf of Suez.

PetroShahd awaits fiscal budget confirmation

• Wednesday, 12th January 2011
• by Egypt Oil & Gas

Egypt Oil and Gas newspaper (EOG) learned that PetroShahd Company is waiting for the confirmation of the fiscal budget during their current meeting of the board of administration.

PetroGulf approves Gebel Elzeit drilling budget

• Wednesday, 12th January 2011
• by Egypt Oil & Gas

PetroGulf decided to invest $9 million for the drilling of an exploratory well in the concession area of Gebel Elzeit.

$1m new investments to develop the gas field of Rashid

• Tuesday, 11th January 2011
• by Egypt Oil & Gas

Egyptian Ministry of Petroleum Eng. Sameh Fahmy received a report from Eng. Rafaat El-Beltagy, Chairman of Rashid Petroleum Company (Rashpetco), which included that BG allocated $850m for drilling seven developmental wells in the deepwater of the Mediterranean Sea.