Egypt Energy Headlines

Egypt Inks $1 bln Oil & Gas Deal with Shell, Petronas

The government of Egypt last weekend signed a deep-water oil and gas exploration deal with Royal Dutch Shell and Malaysia’s Petronas worth around $1 billion for eight wells, a statement said. The government in a separate deal of $10 million with Rockhopper, Kuwait Energy and Canada’s Dover Corporation, agreed on the exploration of the Western […]

Finance Headlines Mauritania

Mauritania: Malaysian Petronas quitting business

Malaysian oil company Petronas has started pulling back and is about to end its operation in Mauritania due to sharp fall in revenues caused by the acute collapse of oil price. The company had notified Mauritanian authorities in February that it would stop its oil exploitation. The company has started disassembling its offshore oil platform […]