Middle East Economic Survey

VOL. LII

No 28

13-Jul-2009

EGYPT

Apache Expands Western Desert Infrastructure, Egypt Launches New Bid Round

The Western Desert is opening up as the key oil and gas region in Egypt outside the offshore Nile Delta, yielding a number of decent sized discoveries this year alone, and already accounting for some 40% of the countrys total liquids production. Apache Corporation is the biggest international operator there, and has just completed the expansion of its gas...