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British Petroleum (BP), an oil and gas global giant, announced Monday August 28 plans to inject $3.5 billion in Egypt for the next three years. BP’s chief executive Bernard Looney made the announcement after meeting with President Abdelfattah al-Sisi. The investments will go towards research, exploration and development, the office of the Egyptian leader announced. […]
Egypt’s energy concern could be about to be over following the discovery of a new natural gas field on the Nile Delta coast by Eni and British Petroleum (BP.) The regional BP president for North Africa, Hesham Mekawi, said the latest discovery located 12km away from the shoreline “is the third discovery along the Nooros […]
Algeria is to reopen the major gas plant Tiguentourine after foreign investors and firms operating at the plant negotiated a deal with the Algerian government to resume work. British Petroleum and Statoil workers are about to return to their previous workplace, which they left after the terrorist attack on January 13 last year. The attack […]
Egypt has denied the claims of an Israeli Minster that the shortage of gas has forced them into buying gas from Israel. Although Egypt is experiencing gas shortages, it denied contacting Israeli authorities for a possible gas deal. An unpopular 20-year gas supply deal to Israel from Egypt under the Mubarak regime was terminated by […]
Eight oil and gas exploration projects have been awarded by Egypt to several companies in a statement released from the ministry of petroleum. The decision followed the reception of 13 offers after an international call for tender concerning prospective acreage. Among the companies are British Petroleum (BP), International Egyptian Oil Company (IEOC), a subsidiary of […]
A recently concluded meeting between Egypt’s president, some government officials and delegates from the British Petroleum on an extraction project of natural gas from a deep water deposit in the Mediterranean basin at a depth of 7,700 meters calls for an investment of billions of dollars. 11 billion dollars will be invested by BP in […]