Shoukry Discusses Energy Cooperation in Cyprus
The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sameh Shoukry, has met with the President of Cyprus, Nicos Anastasiades, and his Cypriot counterpart Nikos Christodoulides, to discuss boosting economic cooperation.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sameh Shoukry, has met with the President of Cyprus, Nicos Anastasiades, and his Cypriot counterpart Nikos Christodoulides, to discuss boosting economic cooperation.
This came during the “Ask the President” session, as part of the National Youth Conference held on July 30-31, in response to a question on the Eastern Mediterranean gas discoveries.
The Second Ministerial Meeting of the East Mediterranean Gas Forum (EMGF) was held in Cairo on July 24-25, as per the invitation of H.E Eng. Tarek El Molla, the Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources.
Presidential decree number 537 for the year 2019 was issued on July 4 approving the governmental agreement between Egypt and Cyprus to establish direct natural gas subsea pipeline.
Egyptian Electricity Transmission Company (EETC) signed a framework agreement with Euro Africa Interconnector Company to connect the power grids of Egypt, Cyprus and Greece through Crete.
The Cypriot House of Representatives approved the agreement between Egypt and Cyprus to establish a natural gas subsea pipeline between the two countries.
The agreement was signed in Nicosia in September 2018 in order to facilitate natural gas delivery from Cyprus to Egypt's liquefaction plants in Idku and Damietta.
The agreement aims to facilitate exporting natural gas from Cyprus to Egyptian liquefaction plants, Idku and Damietta.
Egypt's Constitutional Committee authorized the Egypt-Cyprus agreement to establish a natural gas subsea pipeline on December 9.
Egypt plans to lay the foundation stone of the EuroAfrica Interconnector project in November 2018.