LNG

Egypt said it was planning to drill around 35 new exploratory natural gas wells in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Nile Delta by 2025 with $1.8 billion in investments in joint ventures with oil and gas majors and with a view to increasing liquefied natural gas production.

US LNG engineering company Bechtel was awarded a front-end engineering and design contract to study a proposed unified system between the onshore gas processing plant of the West Delta Deep Marine gas fields in the Mediterranean offshore Egypt and the LNG export plant located at Idku east of the Egyptian port of Alexandria.