President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi affirmed on July 29 that Egypt would achieve natural gas self-sufficiency and a surplus by June 30, 2020.

South Korea will provide Egypt with a financial package worth $3b for export credits and to develop infrastructure in the energy, water resources, and transport sectors, the Egyptian presidency announced.

The Egyptian and Russian governments signed a final agreement to build a nuclear plant in Dabaa, Egypt on November 19th.

The Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources announced in a press release that the petroleum Minister, Sherif Ismail, received a report from Eni Chief Executive Claudio Descalzi concerning the company's deepwater mega-gas find in the Shorouk block in the Mediterranean Sea. The discovery holds a potential of 30 tcf of gas and 5.5 bboe, covering an area of about 38.6 square miles (100 square kilometers).