Egypt agrees deal with Eni, BP for oil and gas exploration in the Mediterranean
Published by Global Banking & Finance Review®
Posted on July 31, 2025
1 min readLast updated: January 22, 2026
Published by Global Banking & Finance Review®
Posted on July 31, 2025
1 min readLast updated: January 22, 2026
Egypt has signed a deal with Eni and BP for oil and gas exploration in the Mediterranean, including drilling in Lake Timsah.
CAIRO (Reuters) -Egypt signed an agreement with oil giants Eni and BP to start exploration activities in the Mediterranean Sea, the petroleum ministry said on Thursday
The agreement also includes drilling in the coming months an exploration well for natural gas in the Lake Timsah area, which lies in a basin developed along a fault extending from the Mediterranean Sea to the Gulf of Suez through the Bitter Lakes region.
(Reporting by Nayera Abdallah in Dubai, Editing by Louise Heavens)
Egypt signed an agreement with oil giants Eni and BP to start exploration activities in the Mediterranean Sea.
The agreement includes drilling an exploration well for natural gas in the Lake Timsah area.
The drilling activities are set to begin in the coming months.
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