Badawi Targets Output Gains with Horizontal Drilling, Hydraulic Fracturing

• Wednesday, 15th April 2026
• by Samar Samir

In a high‑level meeting with senior executives from oil and gas companies, Petroleum and Mineral Resources Minister Karim Badawi announced plans to deploy horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing techniques to ...

Egypt Accelerates Horizontal Drilling to Boost Oil and Gas Output

• Sunday, 1st March 2026
• by Fatma Ahmed

The Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources, Karim Badawi, said that the petroleum sector is fast-tracking the deployment of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing technologies to unlock hard-to-reach oi ...

Bapetco and Khalda Invest $23m to Frack for Apollonia Natural Gas

• Wednesday, 26th August 2015
• by Egypt Oil & Gas

Bapecto and Khaleda Petroleum plan on drilling three horizontal wells in the Apollonia field in the Western Desert, reported Al-Borsa. This is to produce natural gas from the layers of limestone characterized by low ...

Agreement on Shale Price with Shell Egypt and Apache

• Monday, 9th March 2015
• by Egypt Oil & Gas

Egypt has set the price of shale gas expected to be extracted from a recent concession to foreign firms at $5.45 per million British thermal units (mmBtu), an official at the oil ministry said on Monday.