Egyptian National and Strategic Development Projects: News and Updates

[Gomig-21]

that's some likud's nice boys... bc you can hear from them that... "The Red sea border is a "right" to Israel..."

This is the delusional fruitloop who started this fantasy lol.

Unhinged #Israel|i minister for Social Equality says there is no better place for Palestinians to build their country other than #Egypt's Sinai : Gila Gamliel : גילה גמליאל, currently serves as a member of the Knesset for Likud

 

[mahatir]

Speaking of controlling Sinai, I saw your post on one of the chaotic "Jerusalem" threads where you mentioned that there are plans to make Sinai a Palestinian state. I giggled a little when I read that. You know why it's called Sinai? Because it's a peninsula, kinda like Florida or the Baja Peninsula. The bottom line is that it is Egypt. Not part of Egypt, or an extension of Egypt, it IS Egypt. When a couple of hard-core Likudists go on Israeli TV and say things like "the best place for the Palestinians is in the Sinai", one must really wonder what the hell they are smoking or drinking. Besides the impossibility of even entertaining that thought, the Palestinian people would never want to give up their rightful land, in Palestine. These people really have a nerve, I tell ya. lol.

This is really stupid and unrealistic , if I am the Egyptian president I would say then allow me to take over all Territories in Sudan through which the nile passes and territory that includes the nile source in Ethiopia .

 

[Crocodile]

This is the delusional fruitloop who started this fantasy lol.

That's the reason why I'm totally in favor of maintaining a significant military force to work as deterrent against the fruitloops. If and when a fruitloop is elected into office in israel that deterrent should stop them from having any funny ideas regarding sinai.

Otherwise I have absolutely no problem with having good relations and cooperating with israel on all levels (would greatly help if you have the sane moderates running the show over there). I've even been thinking that a tech coop agreement similar to QIZ would be awesome. The best location for it would be tech valley (see the Suez canal development project video). Israel can provide the tech know-how and access to US and European markets while we have the infrastructure and manpower. If we manage to pull this through it'd become the regional version of silicon valley.

 

[Gomig-21]

That's the reason why I'm totally in favor of maintaining a significant military force to work as deterrent against the fruitloops. If and when a fruitloop is elected into office in israel that deterrent should stop them from having any funny ideas regarding sinai.

Otherwise I have absolutely no problem with having good relations and cooperating with israel on all levels (would greatly help if you have the sane moderates running the show over there). I've even been thinking that a tech coop agreement similar to QIZ would be awesome. The best location for it would be tech valley (see the Suez canal development project video). Israel can provide the tech know-how and access to US and European markets while we have the infrastructure and manpower. If we manage to pull this through it'd become the regional version of silicon valley.

I like it.

Saturday had the highest record of transiting ships through the Suez Canal at 74 ships in 24 hours.

https://dailynewsegypt.com/2017/12/09/74-vessels-cross-suez-canal-24-hours/

And @The SC , Zohr gas field had it's first flare lit up and is currently active for the first time.

 

[The SC]

Egypt faces the Ethiopian dam of the Renaissance by building the largest dam in the eastern desert

The Egyptian Ministry of Irrigation announced that it is considering the construction of the largest dam in Shalatin to store 7 million cubic meters of flood water.

The head of the water sector in the Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation Sameh Saqr said that the construction of the Shalatin dam is one of the engineering works within the system of harvesting benefits from rain water and floods and reduce the risks that may result from them.

Saqr told the Middle East News Agency on Saturday that the dam has a storage capacity of seven million cubic meters of water and contributes significantly to the development of the region and protect it from the dangers of floods, noting that the height is up to 12 meters, which is one of the largest dams that are created in the Eastern Desert in terms of height and storage capacity.


https://arabic.rt.com/middle_east/914682-مصر-تواجه-سد-النهضة-ببناء-أكبر-سد-في-الصحراء-الشرقية/

 

[Gomig-21]

Egypt's Zohr gas field to start production at 350 mln cubic feet/day

Reuters , Saturday 16 Dec 2017

Egypt’s mammoth offshore Zohr gas field in the Mediterranean is live and set to produce an initial 350 million cubic feet per day, the petroleum ministry said Saturday.

Discovered in 2015 by Italy’s Eni, the field contains an estimated 30 trillion cubic feet of gas.

Egypt has been seeking to speed up production from recently discovered fields, with an eye to halting imports by 2019 and achieving self-sufficiency.

http://english.ahram.org.eg/News/285465.aspx

Also the IMF has predicted Egypt's economic growth to rank 23 largest in the world and #1 in Africa by 2020-2022.

 

[The SC]

Dabaa Nuclear plant proposed concept

 

[Gomig-21]

Pumping operations begin at Egypt’s giant Zohr gas field

The start of production from Zohr has been eagerly awaited since the gas field was discovered in 2015

Ahram Online , Sunday 17 Dec 2017

Pumping operations began on Saturday on Egypt's super-giant Zohr gas field, bringing the country closer to achieving its goal of self-sufficiency in the supply of liquefied natural gas (LNG).

Experimental production began at Zohr at an initial 350 million cubic feet per day (mcfd), an event eagerly awaited since the field was discovered by Italian energy company Eni in 2015, making Egypt the owner of the largest gas field in the Mediterranean Sea.

Experimental operation means that gas is now being pumped from the wells at Zohr field to the pipelines and transferred to the Port Said land refinery before it is linked to the national natural gas grid, petroleum ministry spokesperson Hamdy Abdel-Aziz told Ahram Online.

The date of the official opening of the project is yet to be determined, Abdel-Aziz said.

A milestone in history of gas production: Minister

Petroleum Minister Tarek El-Molla described Saturday’s “record and unprecedented pumping” as a milestone in the history of international gas production in general and Egyptian gas production in particular, according to a statement issued on Saturday.

Once the first stage of the project is completed in June 2018, production will increase to 1 billion cubic feet per day (bcfd), meaning Egypt will have achieved self-sufficiency in LNG supply.

The second stage is due to be finalised by the end of 2019, with production reaching 2.7 bcfd, El-Molla said.

Investments for the first and second stages are estimated at over $12 billion.

“Production from Zohr will contribute to turning Egypt into a regional hub for trading gas and petroleum production,” ministry spokesman Abdel-Aziz said.

Zohr to save Egypt $2 billion: Ministry spokesperson

The Zohr project will lead to a decrease in liquefied natural gas (LNG) imports, saving Egypt $2 billion when production reaches 1 bcfd by the end of the first phase in June 2018, Abdel-Aziz said.

The production of 350 million cubic feet per day is equivalent to three LNG shipments costing $90 million, Abdel-Aziz explained.

With production costs estimated at a monthly $30 million, gas from Zohr will save a monthly $60 million, i.e. $720 million per year.

The Zohr gas field is expected to alleviate pressure on the budget and the petroleum balance of payments and save foreign currency that is spent on imports, Abdel-Aziz said.

This is in addition to increasing the allocation of money to services that help citizens.

Abdel-Aziz also told Ahram Online that trial operation began at BP’s Atoll field in the past few days.

Last week, El-Molla said that Egypt aims to achieve self-sufficiency in LNG supply before the end of 2018.

Egypt was a net exporter of LNG until 2014. However, it became a net importer in recent years due to a declining output and power shortages amid political turmoil.

In October, El-Molla announced that $27.3 million would be invested in three Egyptian natural gas fields – Zohr, North Alexandria, and Nooros – during 2018.

The three gas fields are expected to raise Egypt's natural gas output by 50 percent in 2018 and 100 percent in 2020, according to the ministry.

http://english.ahram.org.eg/News/285496.aspx

 

[Crocodile]

Financial Times: Egypt’s president sets sights on megacity to rival Cairo

If Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has his way, a new Egyptian capital will rise from the desert over the next 18 months and the president and his government will promptly decamp there, leaving behind Cairo’s notorious congestion and pollution.The new “administrative capital”, expected to open in mid-2019 to the east of Cairo, is the most controversial and ambitious of a string of megaprojects Mr Sisi has been driving as part of his efforts to reboot the struggling economy and bolster the image of his regime. “We have the right to have a dream,” says Khaled al-Husseini. “Other countries like Brazil and Ivory Coast have built new capitals.” Mr Husseini is an official at the Administrative Capital for Urban Development company, a joint venture between the Egyptian army and a government land development agency that is in charge of constructing the city.

The army is supervising the private construction companies involved in the project, underlining the deepening role of the military in the economy. It is a trend that has gathered momentum under Mr Sisi, a former defence minister who overthrew his elected Islamist predecessor in a widely supported 2013 coup. He has relied on the army to manage large projects, bypassing the government bureaucracy which is considered slow and inefficient. The result is the military’s footprint has expanded across a range sectors, from pharmaceuticals to steel and cement production. Mr Sisi’s ambitions for the new capital are staggering: not only will the government move there, but so will parliament, the presidential palace, the supreme court, the central bank and — it is hoped — 6.5m people.

The as-yet nameless city is intended to have an airport, an opera house, a Chinese-built commercial centre of 20 towers, 32 ministerial office blocks, a business district boasting the tallest skyscraper in Africa and more than a dozen universities. There will also be a diplomatic quarter with space for more than 100 embassies. Private real estate companies have already bought plots of land to develop and market, and about 30,000 apartments have been completed. The first phase of the infrastructure build is expected to cost about $4.5bn.

 

[Gomig-21]

Financial Times: Egypt’s president sets sights on megacity to rival Cairo

If Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has his way, a new Egyptian capital will rise from the desert over the next 18 months and the president and his government will promptly decamp there, leaving behind Cairo’s notorious congestion and pollution.The new “administrative capital”, expected to open in mid-2019 to the east of Cairo, is the most controversial and ambitious of a string of megaprojects Mr Sisi has been driving as part of his efforts to reboot the struggling economy and bolster the image of his regime. “We have the right to have a dream,” says Khaled al-Husseini. “Other countries like Brazil and Ivory Coast have built new capitals.” Mr Husseini is an official at the Administrative Capital for Urban Development company, a joint venture between the Egyptian army and a government land development agency that is in charge of constructing the city.

The army is supervising the private construction companies involved in the project, underlining the deepening role of the military in the economy. It is a trend that has gathered momentum under Mr Sisi, a former defence minister who overthrew his elected Islamist predecessor in a widely supported 2013 coup. He has relied on the army to manage large projects, bypassing the government bureaucracy which is considered slow and inefficient. The result is the military’s footprint has expanded across a range sectors, from pharmaceuticals to steel and cement production. Mr Sisi’s ambitions for the new capital are staggering: not only will the government move there, but so will parliament, the presidential palace, the supreme court, the central bank and — it is hoped — 6.5m people.

The as-yet nameless city is intended to have an airport, an opera house, a Chinese-built commercial centre of 20 towers, 32 ministerial office blocks, a business district boasting the tallest skyscraper in Africa and more than a dozen universities. There will also be a diplomatic quarter with space for more than 100 embassies. Private real estate companies have already bought plots of land to develop and market, and about 30,000 apartments have been completed. The first phase of the infrastructure build is expected to cost about $4.5bn.

"Oh my gosh, how is a failed state lie Egypt able to afford to build an entire new city and all the weapons its military is buying with inflation blah blah blah yak yak yak where is the money coming from why are the rich GCC kings giving money to puppet Egypt wah wahn wahn!!

 

[Saif al-Arab]

"Oh my gosh, how is a failed state lie Egypt able to afford to build an entire new city and all the weapons its military is buying with inflation blah blah blah yak yak yak where is the money coming from why are the rich GCC kings giving money to puppet Egypt wah wahn wahn!!

Arabs can't built cities in the first place bro! We don't even know how to act in cities despite the Arab world (our ancestors) having founded the first and thus oldest cities on the planet.

It's a huge mystery for us all but it is what it is.

Almost 100 million big Egypt has no money either. Whenever someone buys anything in Egypt or whenever a transaction occurs, it's always money originating from the GCC. Even when the poor middle-aged Egyptian street seller is trying to lure tourists to his stall at the souq, GCC money is lurking in the shadow like an evil Arabian falcon trying to corrupt the average Egyptian.

After all don't forget that it was Saudi Arabian and other GCC aliens that protested against Morsi in the millions and the Saudi Arabian army and people that removed him and not the Egyptian one. We should not forget this crucial detail.

In all seriousness, this has been in the making for quite some time and I remember hearing similar stories a few years ago. Enlarging Cairo or building another city in the vicinity from scratch to lessen the burdens of a megacity, is a very wise thing to do.

Pumping operations begin at Egypt’s giant Zohr gas field

The start of production from Zohr has been eagerly awaited since the gas field was discovered in 2015

Ahram Online , Sunday 17 Dec 2017

Pumping operations began on Saturday on Egypt's super-giant Zohr gas field, bringing the country closer to achieving its goal of self-sufficiency in the supply of liquefied natural gas (LNG).

Experimental production began at Zohr at an initial 350 million cubic feet per day (mcfd), an event eagerly awaited since the field was discovered by Italian energy company Eni in 2015, making Egypt the owner of the largest gas field in the Mediterranean Sea.

Experimental operation means that gas is now being pumped from the wells at Zohr field to the pipelines and transferred to the Port Said land refinery before it is linked to the national natural gas grid, petroleum ministry spokesperson Hamdy Abdel-Aziz told Ahram Online.

The date of the official opening of the project is yet to be determined, Abdel-Aziz said.

A milestone in history of gas production: Minister

Petroleum Minister Tarek El-Molla described Saturday’s “record and unprecedented pumping” as a milestone in the history of international gas production in general and Egyptian gas production in particular, according to a statement issued on Saturday.

Once the first stage of the project is completed in June 2018, production will increase to 1 billion cubic feet per day (bcfd), meaning Egypt will have achieved self-sufficiency in LNG supply.

The second stage is due to be finalised by the end of 2019, with production reaching 2.7 bcfd, El-Molla said.

Investments for the first and second stages are estimated at over $12 billion.

“Production from Zohr will contribute to turning Egypt into a regional hub for trading gas and petroleum production,” ministry spokesman Abdel-Aziz said.

Zohr to save Egypt $2 billion: Ministry spokesperson

The Zohr project will lead to a decrease in liquefied natural gas (LNG) imports, saving Egypt $2 billion when production reaches 1 bcfd by the end of the first phase in June 2018, Abdel-Aziz said.

The production of 350 million cubic feet per day is equivalent to three LNG shipments costing $90 million, Abdel-Aziz explained.

With production costs estimated at a monthly $30 million, gas from Zohr will save a monthly $60 million, i.e. $720 million per year.

The Zohr gas field is expected to alleviate pressure on the budget and the petroleum balance of payments and save foreign currency that is spent on imports, Abdel-Aziz said.

This is in addition to increasing the allocation of money to services that help citizens.

Abdel-Aziz also told Ahram Online that trial operation began at BP’s Atoll field in the past few days.

Last week, El-Molla said that Egypt aims to achieve self-sufficiency in LNG supply before the end of 2018.

Egypt was a net exporter of LNG until 2014. However, it became a net importer in recent years due to a declining output and power shortages amid political turmoil.

In October, El-Molla announced that $27.3 million would be invested in three Egyptian natural gas fields – Zohr, North Alexandria, and Nooros – during 2018.

The three gas fields are expected to raise Egypt's natural gas output by 50 percent in 2018 and 100 percent in 2020, according to the ministry.

http://english.ahram.org.eg/News/285496.aspx

Wait a second, I think that is actually Saudi Arabian and GCC gas right there. Someone please call the cops!

 

[Gomig-21]

Arabs can't built cities in the first place bro! We don't even know how to act in cities despite the Arab world (our ancestors) having founded the first and thus oldest cities on the planet.

It's a huge mystery for us all but it is what it is.

And it's ok, let them think that. It's kinda funny in a sadistic way lol.

Almost 100 million big Egypt has no money either. Whenever someone buys anything in Egypt or whenever a transaction occurs, it's always money originating from the GCC. Even when the poor middle-aged Egyptian street seller is trying to lure tourists to his stall at the souq, GCC money is lurking in the shadow like an evil Arabian falcon.

You should've seen the discussion @The SC and I were trying to have with another member on another thread who asked how Egypt was affording all this new weaponry (not even getting into the financing that has been going on investing in all these project), and it was like talking to a wall. Hey, their loss.

In all seriousness, this has been in the making for quite some time and I remember hearing similar stories a few years ago. Enlarging Cairo or building another city in the vicinity from scratch to lessen the burdens of a megacity, is a very wise thing to do.

Definitely. When you have such an old city like Cairo, it's tough to renovate something of that magnitute, and building a new city from scratch is really the only way to go. Hey, even this idea when it was brought up a few years ago was laughed at. Who's laughing now?

 

[The SC]

And it's ok, let them think that. It's kinda funny in a sadistic way lol.



You should've seen the discussion @The SC and I were trying to have with another member on another thread who asked how Egypt was affording all this new weaponry (not even getting into the financing that has been going on investing in all these project), and it was like talking to a wall. Hey, their loss.



Definitely. When you have such an old city like Cairo, it's tough to renovate something of that magnitute, and building a new city from scratch is really the only way to go. Hey, even this idea when it was brought up a few years ago was laughed at. Who's laughing now?

Sisi..

 

[The SC]

Egyptian National rail network project :

Monorail 6 October

Monorail of the Administrative capital

 

[Gomig-21]

Monorail 6 October

It's only fitting in a new city!