COP 27: Top sustainability projects in Egypt’s oil and gas sector

COP 27: Top sustainability projects in Egypt’s oil and gas sector

Egypt’s Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources is currently implementing 16 projects across 13 companies to cut emissions, improve efficiency and energy consumption. An official press statement, quoting Minister Tarek El Molla, said these projects would enable the oil and gas sector to recover 25 million cubic feet of gas per day and offset 584,000 tonnes of CO2 emissions.

Key projects highlighted in the statement are as follows:

Waste heat recovery project

Project company: GASCO

GASCO, which operates natural gas transmission networks in Egypt, is expanding its gas compressor station in Dahshour to increase the amount of gas pumped to South Egypt. The expansion project involves the addition of a fifth gas turbine compression train, and two 10 MWe Electrical Motor Driven (EMD) compressor trains. The Waste Heat Recovery project will enable GASCO to increase the Station’s compression capacity without any additional fuel consumption and work independently of the electrical grid. It exploits the exhaust from the four existing gas turbine compression trains and a fifth one under construction through an 28MWe Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) system to generate electricity, which will power the EMD compressor trains, allowing GASCO to save 65 million of standard cubic metres of natural gas per year and avoiding