According to Egyptian sources cited by the Qatari media, they are working on a six-week truce agreement in exchange for the release of 40 hostages, with a partial return of the displaced Palestinians to the northern part of the Strip. Editorial Team The optimism is reflected in the Israeli media and Arabs regarding the latest meeting in Cairo between negotiators [...]
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by Francesco Matera It all started with the Tunisia model, when the EU, thanks to the push of the Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, found an economic agreement with Tunis to mitigate the phenomenon of migratory flows. Even if the agreement struggled to get started due to the delay in the arrival of the funds, today it is still a reality [...]
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Mossad chief David Barnea arrived in Paris today to participate in separate meetings with delegations from the United States, Qatar and Egypt to discuss a possible deal to release hostages in Gaza. Confirmation from three sources cited by Haaretz. Among the participants in the meetings are the director of [...]
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(by Andrea Pinto) Yesterday's news came that the Hamas terrorists who carried out the attack on the kibbutzim on October 7 were carrying al Qaeda information leaflets on the construction and use of rudimentary chemical weapons. In addition to Isis and Hezbollah there would also be al Qaeda alongside Hamas, confirming [...]
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The President of the Arab Republic of Egypt, Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, and the Chief Executive Officer of Eni, Claudio Descalzi, met today in Cairo to explore areas of common interest and collaboration. The main topics discussed were Eni's current and future activities in Egypt, with a focus on the ongoing exploration campaign, [...]
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Eni announces a new important gas discovery in the Nargis-1 exploration well, in the "Nargis Offshore Area" concession, in the eastern Mediterranean Sea, off the coast of Egypt. The Nargis-1 well, drilled in 309m of water by the drillship Stena Forth, encountered approximately 61m of gas-containing Miocene and Oligocene sandstones. The discovery can be developed by exploiting [...]
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Egypt is going through a serious economic crisis and as an immediate result there is an anomalous migratory flow towards Europe. The latest official statistics on Egypt's poverty rate estimate that nearly a third of the country lives below the poverty line. The austerity measures imposed by Sisi have created a deep [...]
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The President of the Arab Republic of Egypt, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, met Eni's CEO Claudio Descalzi today in Cairo to discuss Eni's activities in the country and areas of common interest and collaboration. The meeting was also attended by Prime Minister Mustafa Madbouly and Minister of Oil and Mineral Resources Tarek [...]
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New oil and gas discoveries in the Meleiha concession add 8.500 barrels of oil equivalent to production Eni announces new oil and gas discoveries in the Meleiha concession, in the Egyptian Western Desert, for approximately 8.500 barrels / day of oil equivalent. The discoveries have already been connected and put into production, in line with the [...]
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EGAS President Magdy Galal and Eni's Natural Resources General Manager Guido Brusco signed a framework agreement in Cairo today that will allow maximizing gas production and LNG exports. This agreement aims to promote the export of Egyptian gas to Europe, and in particular to Italy, in the context [...]
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Eni's CEO, Claudio Descalzi, met today with the President of the Arab Republic of Egypt, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, to discuss Eni's activities in the country and areas of common interest and collaboration. The meeting was also attended by the Minister of Oil and Mineral Resources Tarek El-Molla. In particular, during the meeting he faced [...]
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The licenses are located in the Eastern Mediterranean, in the Western Desert and in the Gulf of Suez San Donato Milanese (MI), 10 January 2022 - Eni has been awarded five new exploration licenses by the Egyptian Ministry of Petroleum, four of which as Operator, in the 'Egyptian offshore and onshore, following the positive participation in the "Egypt [...]
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French companies have delivered a total population surveillance system to Egypt. An apparatus capable of intercepting billions of telephone and internet communications, locating the positions of users and highlighting all their present and past relationships. A very powerful means that Cairo has used, writes La Repubblica, to arrest thousands [...]
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Eni, in a press release, announced that it has signed an agreement with Egyptian Electricity Holding Company (EEHC) and Egyptian Natural Gas Holding Company (EGAS) to assess the technical and commercial feasibility of hydrogen production projects in the country. In particular, the parties will study joint projects for the production of green hydrogen, through the use of electricity generated [...]
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Eni signs for the merger of the Meleiha and Meleiha Deep concessions into a new concession called Merged Meleiha in the Western Desert in Egypt Eni announces that it has signed an agreement with Egypt, the Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation (EGPC) and Lukoil for the union and the extension to 2036, with the possibility of further extension to 2041, of the concessions of the [...]
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(by Andrea Pinto) Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the other Gulf countries (United Arab Emirates, Egypt and Bahrain) have signed a historic agreement to end the embargo that lasted three years. The summit was held in AI Ula, a town north of Medina. The Qatari Emir Tamim bin Hamad al Thani was present, received [...]
read moreNew oil resources discovered thanks to a new exploration well in the Meleiha concession. The new discovery adds 10 barrels a day to the concession's production. Eni announces a new oil discovery in the Meleiha development concession, in the western Egyptian desert. The discovery was made with the Arcadia 9 well drilled [...]
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In a note, Eni (operator of the Block), together with its partner bp, announces a new gas discovery in the area previously defined as the “Great Nooros Area”, in the Abu Madi West license in the conventional waters of the Nile Delta. This new discovery, made through the Nidoco NW-1 exploration well, is located at 16 meters of water depth, at [...]
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Eni announces the discovery of new oil resources in the western Egyptian desert thanks to a new exploration well in the South West Meleiha concession. Production in the concession began just a year ago and today exceeds 12,000 barrels per day Eni announces the successful drilling of the SWM-A-6X well located in the Concession of [...]
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The news is reported by all Libyan newspapers, from the Libyan Observer to the Libyan Address. Surprisingly, Libyan Prime Minister Fayez al-Serraj flew to Turkey to meet Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the early afternoon. The main issue addressed was the agreement to send Turkish troops to help the Tripoli government. Only [...]
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Leonardo today announced that the Egyptian helicopter operator Petroleum Air Services will add a sixth AW139 for offshore transport operations in the country by the end of the year. Petroleum Air Services has been using AW139 helicopters to support the Oil & Gas industry in Egypt since 2009. Since then, over 12.900 hours of […]
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Eni announces a new gas discovery being evaluated on the Nour exploration prospect, located in the Nour North Sinai Concession, in the Mediterranean Sea about 50 kilometers north of the Sinai peninsula, in Egypt. The Nour-1 exploration well, through which the discovery was made, was drilled by the Scarabeo-9 plant at a [...]
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Eni announces that the Egyptian authorities have assigned the company two new exploration blocks offshore Egypt. The first block, "South East Siwa" (Eni's interest 100%), was awarded as part of the competitive bid round launched by EGPC in 2018. The block, which has an area of 3.013 km², is located in the Western Desert near the concession of […]
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The death toll rose to four in the explosion that hit a tourist bus yesterday afternoon near the pyramids of Giza, Egypt. In addition to two Vietnamese tourists who were killed on the spot, a third tourist and an Egyptian tour guide died within hours of arriving at the hospital due to the serious injuries sustained. [...]
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The Egyptian government approved the sale by Eni of a 20% stake to Mubadala Petroleum and a 25% stake to BP in the exploration concession Nour San Donato Milanese (Mi), 9 December 2018 - Eni announces that the Egyptian government today approved the sale by Eni of [...]
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Two policemen were killed in the Egyptian city of Alexandria following a bomb attack against the local security chief two days before the presidential election. Five other people were injured due to the explosion of the bomb that was placed under a car and detonated when the general of the [...]
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Eni announces that today AGIBA, the operational joint venture between the Eni subsidiary IEOC and the state-owned Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation (EGPC), has reached a cumulative oil production of 500 million barrels. AGIBA has been operational since 1981 and has operations mainly focused on Eni's oil and gas concessions located [...]
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Eni has agreed on the sale to Mubadala Petroleum, a subsidiary of Mubadala Investment Company, of a 10% stake in the Shorouk concession, offshore Egypt, in which the super-giant Zohr gas field is located. Eni, through its subsidiary IEOC, currently holds a 60% stake in the block, while the other partners [...]
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Since yesterday, Ezzat Ghonim, a human rights lawyer and director of the Egyptian NGO Coordination for Rights and Freedoms, has been untraceable. Amnesty International fears that he may have been kidnapped by Egyptian state agents and is therefore a new victim of enforced disappearance. Yesterday, at 17.30 pm, Ghonim phoned his wife informing her that [...]
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The Egyptian media reported that the Cairo Criminal Court sentenced four people accused of forming a subversive terrorist group called the "Ausim cell" to the death penalty. Of the other 26 people involved in the affair, 12 were sentenced in absentia to life imprisonment, while for the other 14 terrorists it was [...]
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The Egyptian foreign minister, Sameh Choukry, will go to Addis Ababa next Tuesday to address, with the competent authorities, the thorny dossier of the so-called "Nile crisis", which arose following the Ethiopian decision to build a dam along the Nile light blue. Egypt fears that the construction of the gigantic barrage could lead to a [...]
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Egypt's Minister of Antiquities has announced the discovery of a mummy in one of Luxor's two unexplored tombs. The discovery was made by some Egyptian archaeologists while exploring the two tombs discovered in the 90s by the German archaeologist Frederica Kampp who attributed a dating to them but without ever entering inside. Yes […]
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A week after the issuance of the decree issued by Egypt banning Qatari citizens from freely entering the country of the pyramids, effectively interrupting the free movement that had been taking place for almost 60 years (since 1960), Qatar Airways announced that it would suspend the flights to Egypt and will lay off the staff of its Egyptian offices, which will be [...]
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The Egyptian government's press office said that "the vast majority of terrorist operations take place only in a limited area of the country, in north-eastern Sinai which is no more than 30 square kilometers". According to what was expressed in the statement, the massacre at the Al-Rawda mosque would reveal a "change" of strategy due to the "desperation" of the groups [...]
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According to reports from the police, four off-road vehicles loaded with explosives, driven by extremists, arrived near the mosque and threw cars at the religious building, firing on the faithful. The mosque is located in the area of al Rwada in northern Sinai and was frequented by Muslims of the Sufi mystical current. The terrorists raged [...]
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will travel to Paris in early December to meet with French President Emmanuel Macron. This was announced by the office of the head of the Israeli government, referring to a long telephone conversation between the two leaders which took place today. The head of the Elysée informed Netanyahu of his initiative to resolve the crisis [...]
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According to Nova, Libyan general Khalifa Haftar met with Egyptian military leaders yesterday during an unannounced visit to Cairo. A Libyan diplomatic source in Egypt confirmed this to “Agenzia Nova”. The visit coincides with the meeting of the officers of Tripoli and Benghazi to arrive at the unification of the Libyan army. [...]
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Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi greeted the Naval Armed Forces with the new equipment just installed to face and fight terrorism. President Sisi participated on Thursday in the naval exercise "Zat al-Swaari 2017" which was held in the city of Alexandria as part of the celebration of the Egyptian Naval Day, during which four units [...]
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The Anatolia news agency reported that Hamas (deputy) leader Musa Abu Marzook and other high-level members of the organization arrived in Moscow to meet with the Russian government, and this occurred almost simultaneously with the dissolution of the Administrative Committee for Gaza. , announced by Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh during his visit to the [...]
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The Arab Quartet is firm in its position of boycott against Qatar and in the request to Doha to put an end to the support given to terrorist groups ”. This is what Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry said with reference to the decision taken in June by Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, [...]
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About 500 pilgrims presented themselves on the Palestinian side of the Rafah crossing, on the occasion of the first day of the opening of the passage that allows access to Egypt. The Gaza transit department reports today through a statement, specifying that the 500 people will travel to Saudi Arabia, passing through Egypt, to make the annual Muslim pilgrimage [...]
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Two suspected leaders of an armed terrorist group were killed in an exchange of fire with security forces in Buhayra governorate in northern Egypt, the Egyptian Interior Ministry announced today. "Investigations revealed that members of an armed terrorist group had taken refuge in abandoned houses in the area, [...]
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The spokesman for the self-proclaimed Libyan National Army (LNA), Colonel Ahmed al Mismari, announced that his men have managed to secure about a thousand kilometers of the border with Egypt. During a press conference held yesterday in Cairo, al Mismari explained that "the national army is liberating the Libyan territory from terrorist groups [...]
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