Khaled AbuBakr, chairman of the Egyptian Gas Association, said an additional 20 billion cubic metres per year of gas supplies is needed in the next 10 to 12 years to help meet rising domestic demand. Egypt’s is currently consuming 42 Bcm a year.
Local gas developments, such as the $12 billion BP-led West Nile Delta project, will help meet some of the rise in consumption, but Egypt will need to rely on imports to ease supply shortages in the foreseeable future, said AbuBakr, speaking with Upstream on the sidelines of the World Gas Conference in Paris.
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