Tarek El Molla, Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources, highlighted securing 12 exploration and production (E&P) agreements with working international oil companies (IOCs) in Egypt and newly-enrolled companies such as; Chevron and ExxonMobil despite the pandemic challenges. This came during CERAWeek’s annual energy conference, the most prominent energy conference in the world, and comes as a part of a series of interviews with major figures participating in the next edition of the conference in March 2021.

Shell is studying the potential of importing natural gas from Cyprus for the liquefaction plants in Egypt during the next period.

Al Ahram’s Energy Conference shed light on the role of international petroleum and electric companies in Egypt.