The Zohr gasfield will ramp up to 350 mcf/d when production starts sometime this month, the Oil Ministry said on Friday, according to Reuters. Production would gradually be raised to around 1 bcf/d by mid-2018, the ministry added. Prime Minister Sherif Ismail had previously said Zohr’s production this year would reach 500 mcf/d.

Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn is expected to visit Egypt and deliver a speech at the House of Representatives this month. Egypt and Ethiopia are locked in a war of words over use of Nile water.

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