QatarEnergy said Sunday it had signed a deal with Egyptian Natural Gas Holding Co to supply up to 24 cargos of liquefied natural gas to the North African country for summer 2026.
QatarEnergy's online statement on the agreement did not specify the volume.
The state-owned companies also agreed to launch talks "on additional and long-term supplies of LNG from QatarEnergy to Egypt", said the statement on QatarEnergy's website.
QatarEnergy also said it had inked a memorandum of understanding with Egypt's Petroleum and Mineral Resources Ministry "to strengthen cooperation in the energy sector, with special focus on the supply of LNG from QatarEnergy to Egypt".
QatarEnergy president and chief executive Saad Sherida Al-Kaabi, who is also Qatar's energy minister, said, "This agreement builds on our recent successful cooperation with Egypt particularly with respect to the supply of LNG from QatarEnergy’s portfolio".
Egypt has a "growing demand for energy to fuel its robust economic and industrial growth", Al-Kaabi said.
Qatar meanwhile expects to grow its LNG production capacity from the current 77 million metric tons per annum to 160 MMtpa through QatarEnergy's North Field expansion projects at home and Golden Pass LNG in the United States, Al-Kaabi declared last year. (January 5, 2026, Source: https://www.rigzone.com/news/qatarenergy_to_supply_lng_to_egypt_for_summer-05-jan-2026-182678-article/)
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