Date of Oil Discovery: 1907
Date of Oil Production: 1914
http://www.oapecorg.org/en/aboutus/members.htm Обзор
http://www.eia.doe.gov/cabs/Egypt/Background.html http://www.egyptoil-gas.com/Карта концессий
http://www.egyptoil-gas.com/concession_map.php BP Statistical Review of World Energy 2010
Egypt is an important non-OPEC energy producer. It has the sixth largest proved oil reserves in Africa. Over half of these reserves are offshore reserves. Although Egypt is not a member of OPEC, it is a member of the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries.
Commercial quantities of oil were first found in 1908, and more petroleum was found in the late 1930s along the Gulf of Suez. Later, large oil fields were discovered in the Sinai Peninsula, the Gulf of Suez, the Western Desert, and the Eastern Desert. The Abu Rudeis and Ra's Sudr oil fields in the Sinai, captured by Israel in 1967, were returned to Egyptian control in November 1975, and the remaining Sinai oil fields reverted to Egyptian control by the end of April 1982.
Approximately 50% of Egypt's oil production comes from the Gulf of Suez, with the Western Desert, Eastern Desert, and the Sinai Peninsula as country's three other primary producing areas. Domestic consumption was estimated at 564,000 barrels per day (89,700 m3/d) in 2004. Net oil exports in that same year were estimated at 134,000 barrels per day (21,300 m3/d).
Major discoveries in the 1990s have given natural gas increasing importance as an energy source. As of 2005, the country's reserves of natural gas are estimated at 66 trillion cubic feet (1.9×1012 m3), which are the third largest in Africa.[2] Probable reserves have been placed at or more than 120 trillion cubic feet (3.4×1012 m3). Since the early 1990s, significant deposits of natural gas have been found in the Western Desert, in the Nile Delta and offshore from the Nile Delta. Domestic consumption of natural gas has also risen as a result of thermal power plants converting from oil to natural gas. As of 2002, Egypt's production and consumption of natural gas are each estimated at 941 billion cubic feet (26.6×109 m3).
Natural gas is exported by the Arab Gas Pipeline to the Middle East and in the future potentially to Europe. When completed, it will have a total length of 1,200 kilometres (750 mi).[3] Natural gas is exported also as the liquefied natural gas (LNG). LNG is produced at LNG plants of Egyptian LNG and SEGAS LNG companies.
Oil shale resources were discovered in the Safaga-Quseir area of the Eastern Desert in the 1940s. This area is estimated to have reserves equivalent about 4.5 million barrels (720×103 m3) of in-place shale oil and the Abu Tartour area of the Western Desert is estimated to have about 1.2 million barrels (190×103 m3) of in-place shale oil. The oil shale in the Red Sea area could be extracted by underground mining. In the Abu Tartour are, oil shale could be mined as byproduct whilst mining for phosphates. Oil shale in Egypt is foreseen as a potential fuel for the power generation.
http://countryproductionprofiles.blogspot.com/2007/02/egypt.html
http://www.pico-petroleum.com/PIPStructure.aspx Oil and Gas in Egypt - Overview
http://www.mbendi.com/indy/oilg/af/eg/p0005.htm http://www.africanoiljournal.com/egypt.htm http://www.suco-eg.com/ Shell Egypt N.V.
http://202.244.105.132/English/Data/Africa_file/Company/egypt04.html BP, RWE Dea move on Egypt plans
http://www.oilonline.com/News/NewsArticles/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/35119/BP-RWE-Dea-move-on-Egypt-plans.aspx
http://www.vegasoil.com/en/main.php http://www.apachecorp.com/Operations/Egypt/index.aspx http://www.offshoreenergytoday.com/australia-beach-confirms-discovery-in-gulf-of-suez-concession-egypt/