El Molla discusses gas exports with US officials: Oil Minister Tarek El Molla discussed Egypt’s gas exports with US Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm and State Department energy advisor Amos Hochstein during the CERAWeek International Energy Conference yesterday, according to a cabinet statement.

Egyptian gas exports have taken on a new level of importance in recent months, amid an energy crisis in Europe and Lebanon. Egypt is one of the countries that Europe is looking to to help decrease its reliance on Russian gas, while a plan to ship Egyptian gas to Lebanon is still to be green-lit by the US, which hasn’t confirmed whether it will apply sanctions for transporting the supplies via Syrian territory.

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