New finds have already given rise to talk of Egypt resuming exports soon, aided by a modernization programme to make the market more attractive.

Tareq El Molla took over his role as Egypt?s oil minister in September 2015, just after the discovery of the giant Zohr gasfield. Since then Egypt?s natural gas fortunes have seen a massive transformation. First gas from Zohr is expected to be achieved at the end of this year and Egypt is now boldly predicting that it will achieve self-sufficiency by end of 2018 and re-start exports by 2020.

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