Tarek El Molla

The prospects for the supply of natural gas from Egypt and the Eastern Mediterranean region, for the Greek and European markets, will be at the center of the discussions that the Minister of Environment and Energy, Costas Skrekas, will have tomorrow, Thursday, in Cairo.

The plans for a Greek-Egyptian electricity interconnection were discussed during meetings held by Environment and Energy Minister Kostas Skrekas in Cairo with Egypt's Minister of Environment, Yasmine Fouad, the Minister of Electricity and RES, Mohamed Shaker, and the Minister of Petroleum Resources, Tarek El Molla, in the context of an official visit by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis.

Bilateral trade growth and opening of markets in North Africa and the Middle East for Romanian companies represented the main topics for discussion at the 3rd session of the Joint Inter-Governmental Committee for Economic, Scientific and Technical Cooperation in Egypt, informs the Ministry for Business Environment, Trade and Entrepreneurship.

Egyptian Oil Minister Tarek El Molla has signed three offshore oil and gas exploration and production deals worth a total of at least $220 million with France's Total, Britain's BP, and Italian oil major ENI's Egyptian subsidiary IEOC, the ministry said on Dec. 28.