{"id":616498,"date":"2024-03-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-06T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2024\/03\/06\/govt-awards-11-concessions-for-gas-exploration-in-the-western-mediterranean-plus-shelf-drilling-sabbour-consulting-sky-developments\/"},"modified":"2024-03-06T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-03-06T00:00:00","slug":"govt-awards-11-concessions-for-gas-exploration-in-the-western-mediterranean-plus-shelf-drilling-sabbour-consulting-sky-developments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2024\/03\/06\/govt-awards-11-concessions-for-gas-exploration-in-the-western-mediterranean-plus-shelf-drilling-sabbour-consulting-sky-developments\/","title":{"rendered":"Gov\u2019t awards 11 concessions for gas exploration in the western Mediterranean. 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Exploration is scheduled to start between the end of 2024 and the beginning of 2025.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong>#2- Shelf Drilling\u2019s oil contract extended: <\/strong>Dubai-based offshore drilling contractor <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.shelfdrilling.com\/\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Shelf<\/a><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.shelfdrilling.com\/\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Drilling<\/a> was awarded a USD 51 mn, two-year contract extension for an oil rig in the Gulf of Suez with Egypt\u2019s <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/gemsa-petroleum\/?originalSubdomain=eg\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Gemsa Petroleum<\/a>, according to a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ent.news\/2024\/3\/363.pdf\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">statement (pdf)<\/a> from Shelf. One year of the extension will be farmed out to Petrogulf Misr \u2014 a JV between the Egyptian General Petroleum Company, the Kuwait Foreign Petroleum Exploration Company, and Cheiron.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong>SOUND SMART-<\/strong> A <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.investopedia.com\/terms\/f\/farmout.asp\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">farmout agreement<\/a> allows a third party to acquire an interest in an oil or a gas asset for development and gets paid a sum of money or receives royalties for the work it performs in the asset.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\">\n<p class=\"tag-border-left\">REAL ESTATE-<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong>Sabbour Consulting eyes big projects in KSA: <\/strong>Engineering consulting firm <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sabbour.com\/\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Sabbour<\/a><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sabbour.com\/\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Consulting<\/a> is studying four potential projects in Saudi Arabia, whose construction will cost nearly SAR 3 bn, the company\u2019s CEO Omar Sabbour told <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.alborsaanews.com\/2024\/03\/05\/1771777\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Al Borsa<\/a>. The projects include a residential compound for SAR 600 mn, residential towers for SAR 400 mn, a tourist resort for SAR 450 mn, and a residential project in the Neom development costing SAR 1.5 bn.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\">\n<p class=\"tag-border-left\"> DEBT-<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong>Banque Misr, Emirates NBD Egypt to fund a Sky Developments project: <\/strong>Sky Investments\u2019 real estate arm <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/skydevelopments\/?originalSubdomain=eg\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Sky Developments<\/a> has secured a nine-year syndicated loan of EGP 3.1 bn from Banque Misr and Emirates NBD Egypt to finance part of its New Cairo mixed-use development Park St. East, according to a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ent.news\/2024\/3\/394.pdf\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">statement (pdf)<\/a>. The development, set to be similar to its Sheikh Zayed Part St. project, will cost a total of EGP 4.2 bn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The concessions were awarded to BP, ExxonMobil, TotalEnergies, Chevron, and Shell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":616499,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"single-feature.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":false,"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_primary_brand":0,"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7209],"tags":[111,576,196,780,1060,72,778,246,91,83,150,594,8439,7234,1990],"brand":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"class_list":["post-616498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-also-on-our-radar","tag-also-on-our-radar","tag-banque-misr","tag-bp","tag-chevron","tag-emirates-nbd","tag-enterpriseam","tag-exxonmobil","tag-green-economy","tag-oil-and-gas","tag-real-estate","tag-renewable-energy","tag-shell","tag-sky-investments","tag-solar-power","tag-totalenergies","wpautop","entry"],"acf":{"mongo_id":"7c658a60-4abf-4d51-b892-6fe50e35cc6f","is_powered_by":true,"story_type":"1","photo_url":"https:\/\/ent.news\/2024\/3\/489.jpg","photo_position":"above","homepage_title":"","full_issue_title":"Gov\u2019t awards 11 concessions for gas exploration in the western Mediterranean. 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