Egypt
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March 19, 2025
Earlier this week, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi met with Prime Minister, Dr. Mostafa Madbouly, and Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources, Eng. Karim Badawi to discuss exploration activity, and particularly the "Fayoum 5" oil and gas field.
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February 18, 2025
Drilling waste management specialist, TWMA*, has announced a landmark partnership with a multinational energy operator for its inaugural exploration project in Egypt, located offshore in the Mediterranean Sea.
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February 17, 2025
bp has announced the start of production from the second development phase of the Raven field, offshore Egypt, which involves the subsea tieback of additional Raven infill wells to its existing onshore infrastructure as part of the West Nile Delta (WND) project.
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February 10, 2025
Bluewater, a specialist energy private equity firm, has agreed to sell Apex International Energy, an independent E&P company focused on the prolific Egyptian upstream market. Apex has become a top ten producer in Egypt in less than two years from oil discovery.
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January 04, 2025
Egypt President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi has emphasized the importance of developing newly discovered wells and including them in the nation's production plan, as well as intensifying exploration activities in Egypt's onshore and offshore areas.
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July 01, 2024
To date, Apex has drilled 10 wells. Six of the 10 drilled wells are currently producing, one has been completed as a water supply well for a water injection project, two are discoveries waiting on completions, and one was a dry hole.
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June 20, 2024
This sale enables Energean to rationalize the portfolio and focus on its gas-weighted, gas development strategy, underpinned by the Karish Field in Israel and recent farm-in to the Anchois field in Morocco.
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May 13, 2024
QatarEnergy will acquire a 40% working interest in each of the “Cairo” and “Masry” Offshore Concession Agreements, which were awarded to ExxonMobil in January 2023 and cover an area of approximately 11,400 km2 in water depths of 2,000 to 3,000 m.
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May 10, 2024
An initial contract was awarded in May 2023 to a consortium including SLB, Subsea Integration Alliance and Saipem for the engineering, procurement, construction and installation of the second development phase (2a) of the Sakarya natural gas field.
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April 25, 2024
TAG Oil Ltd. has successfully pumped all twelve planned stages of its multistage hydraulic frac on its BED4-T100 ("T100") well location in Egypt.
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March 21, 2024
The survey revealed a Messinian evaporite layer of variable thickness extends across most of the area. The survey is tied to the Kiwi-1 well, one of the few wells in this deepwater area, and primary targets are likely to be pre-salt Oligo-Miocene structures with clastic reservoirs.
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March 04, 2024
Shelf Drilling, Ltd. has secured a two-year contract extension for the Rig 141 jack-up rig in direct continuation of its current term with Gemsa Petroleum Company (“Gempetco”) for operations in the Gulf of Suez offshore Egypt.
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February 28, 2024
The new spending will occur during the next three to four years, a bp spokesperson said in an emailed response to questions. bp will continue to hold about 70% of its existing interests in Egypt outside the joint venture with ADNOC.
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February 22, 2024
TAG Oil has now commenced drilling the T100 horizontal pay zone section, which is expected to take up to approximately three weeks to complete the drilling of the planned 1,000-meter horizontal section and run the completion technolo
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February 14, 2024
bp will contribute its interests in three development concessions, as well as exploration projects in Egypt to the venture, according to a statement. ADNOC will provide cash to help fund future growth opportunities, the company said, without providing a value.
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January 24, 2024
The West Delta Deep Marine (WDDM) concession is located approximately 90 km offshore Egypt, on the north-western part of the Nile Delta. Significant gas volumes have been discovered in numerous fields and reservoirs.
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January 18, 2024
The new data set is relevant for companies seeking to establish a presence in the area and for existing operators aiming to refine their exploration strategies.
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November 14, 2023
Imports are expected to rise to 650 MMcfd on Thursday, and to the normal level of 800 MMcfd early next week, from about 250 MMcfd earlier in November, the person said, asking not to be named because the information isn’t public.
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November 13, 2023
Chevron Corp. has started supplies to local customers in Israel and the region from its Tamar natural gas field, the company said Monday. The field was closed last month on safety concerns following Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack on Israel.
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November 03, 2023
The giant offshore Leviathan field is exporting the fuel after another Israeli field, Karish, returned from an outage, allowing domestic demand to be met, said people familiar with the matter, who asked not to be named because the information isn’t public.
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October 30, 2023
The halt in the gas imports appears linked a decision earlier this month by Israeli authorities to shut down the offshore Tamar gas field amid concerns it could be impacted by the fighting between its military and Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
