In April 2015 Egypt received its first ever LNG cargo, as it sought to deal with crippling power cuts to both domestic and industrial users. Fast forward three years and Cairo is now talking about exporting gas again with output having hit an all-time high of 6.6bn cfd, the Ministry of Petroleum confirmed to MEES on 12 September.

The key boost to output, up 1.6bn cfd (32%) over the past year, has come from Eni’s 21.5tcf Zohr field. (CONTINUED - 988 WORDS)