An oil tanker docked at the East Libyan port of Es Sider late December to load the first cargo of crude since the terminal reopened following a two-year closure, Reuters reported. The tanker, the Alicante, is due to l...
Algerian Sonatrach boosted natural gas sales to Italy by 140% in the first ten months of the year as Algeria looks to bolster energy exports after years of stagnation, with exports expecting to grow further with a new...
Iraq’s Oil Ministry is postponing an upstream bidding round for 12 small and medium-sized oil fields across three provinces until mid 2017, reported Reuters. A statement for the the ministry said that there are essent...
The Egyptian Academy of Scientific Research and Technology (ASRT) will launch a new solar power plant in Sharkya governorate with investments around $5.49m in October. ASRT’s Chairperson, Mahmoud Sakr, stated ...
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), Agence Française de Development (AFD), and the European Investment Bank (EIB) will provide $38m financing facility to Banque marocaine du commerce extérieur...
Qatar’s second largest LNG producer, RasGas Company, has shipped its first liquefied natural gas (LNG) cargo to the Floating Storage Regasification Unit (FSRU) Toscana, in Italy, reported Peninsula News. The FSR...
A contract worth almost $44m has been inked with Italian and Swiss investors for building Iran’s biggest solar power plant in North Khorasan province, reported Trade Arabia. Managing Director of Energy Department of N...
Italy’s Enel Green Power has decided to withdraw its investments from the renewable energy market in Egypt and seek the compensations for the investments that were already injected in the sector, reported Daily News E...
The Egyptian Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources seeks to invest $1.6b in a project that aims to expand the refining facilities of the Middle East Oil Refinery (Midor) in order to meet the domestic demand of p...
The CEO of Italian oil and gas company Eni, Claudio Descalzi, has announced that exploratory drilling off Cyprus’ southern shore will be initiated in 2017, according to Hellenic Shipping News. After discussions with C...