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According to the
minister of petroleum from Egypt, the industrial
sector shares the natural gas in a proportion of 26%
and the electricity sector in proportion of 58%.
The commercial
premises, the households and the industries are
encouraged by the government to use natural gas in
substitution for the fuels that pollutes.
In the
first mouth of 2008, the gas Connections
Project received a
loan from the World Bank; the project regards the
switching of LPG (liquefied petroleum gas)
consumption with the natural gas as well as the
expansion of the natural gas use in the areas with
population that has low incomes.
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Gasco is the name of
the Egypt` s natural gas company and it was founded
in 1997. The company operates, maintains and manages
the grid and the facilities of the national gas.
EGAS (The Egyptian Natural Gas Holding company) is
the one who guides the strategy`s development. One
third of the gas reserved was allocated for the
requirements of the domestic market, for the next 25
years, one third for export and one thirds for some
strategic purposes. This was decided by the Egypt`s
government in 2000. In Egypt are some important
foreign companies involved in the production and the
exploration of the natural gas such as: Shell, BG,
Eni and BP. In the Western Desert Apache is a
producer of the natural gas. According to the
Egyptian minister of oil, no new contracts regarding
the gas export will be signed till 2010; this, as an
answer to the pressure of the people against the
export contracts. The region of Nile Delta and the
one of the Western Desert have gas sources that are
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The half of the gas production in Egypt is assured by
Badreddin, Abu Madi and Abu Qir from Nile Delta; these
fields are mature and non-associated. South Ternsah, Port
Fuad, Rosetta, Wakah and Scarab/Saffron are the fields of
developments and the new discovered Satis area were
discovered by Eni and BP in 2008. The most important areas
of natural gas from the Western Desert are the Khalda and
the Obeiyed field.
The operating and development costs in
these areas are lower than the Mediterranean region` s
fields because of a large pipelines network and some
processing plants that make possible a fast transport
upstream to Alexandria through a pipeline of 180 miles. The
Arab Gas Pipeline that makes the connection between Egypt
and Syria and Jordan is the export project with the biggest
costs. Syria and Turkey signed a contract in order to
connect this pipeline to the Turkey` s grid and to be used
starting with 2011.
The pipeline will be extended in
Europe to export in Austria through Romania, Hungary and
Bulgaria. Cyprus and Lebanon are other two countries who may
be connected to the pipeline. Libya was agreed to make a
pipeline of natural gas between Alexandria and Tobruk, (a
city from the East of Libyan) in order to import gas from
the region of Nile Delta.
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