EGYPT

 

Egypt’s New Petroleum Minister Looks To Foreign Firms To Solve Gas Shortage

 

Usama Kamal, the freshly-appointed Egyptian Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources, met executives from five of the country’s key offshore gas producers on 7 August. Discussions with BP, Germany’s RWE, Britain’s BG, France’s GdF Suez and Malaysian state firm Petronas focused on the companies’ current and future work plans, and in...