Wintershall Dea and operator BP could  get a gross production of gas from Raven, the fifth field of the offshore West Nile, estimated approximately at 600 million standard cubic feet of gas per day (mmscf/d). At its peak, the Raven field is expected to deliver a gross production of 900 mmscf/d and approximately 30,000 barrels of condensate per day (gross production).

Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources, Tarek El Molla met with the Canadian Ambassador to Cairo, Louis Dumas to enhance mining sector and review the latest development of the Canadian companies in the field of oil, gas, mining, and petrochemicals in Egypt, according to press release.

The Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) signed a strategic framework agreement with Petroliam Nasional Berhad (PETRONAS) to explore opportunities for collaboration across Abu Dhabi oil and gas sector.

Egypt announced the start of a bid round for oil and gas exploration in 24 blocks, according to Reuters.

The Indian Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, has laid the foundation stone for oil and gas projects in Tamil Nadu worth ₹32,700 crore.

The Iraqi Ministry of Oil has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Total company for cooperating in establishing promising large projects.

Methanex Egypt announced today the launch of the Egyptian Process Safety Management (PSM) Steering Committee’s website – www.PSMEgypt.com. The website is the result of the collaboration between the Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources and Methanex Egypt following the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in February 2020, enabling the creation of the Egyptian PSM Committee mandated to embed the culture of Process Safety Management (PSM) within the Egyptian oil, gas and petrochemicals sector, in alignment with the ministry’s Modernization Program and international best practices, guidelines and standards.

Italy’s Edison sold its exploration and production (E&P) assets in Norway to Sval Energi, Norwegian oil and gas group, for $300 million to focus on clean energy.

The Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources, Tarek El Molla, emphasized the local manufacturing of petroleum equipment to reduce imports and rationalize foreign exchange while visiting Petrojet’s central workshops for manufacturing static equipment. This showed how all national petroleum companies (NOCs) especially Petrojet gained distinguished experiences and achieved outstanding results in the local manufacturing field.

Equinor has agreed to buy a 49% interest in Russian onshore petroleum assets from Rosneft for $550 million (mm).