Egypt’s “energy shortage” is being blamed here on everything but its actual cause. “A rise in population, temperature changes and blow to infrastructure due to frequent terrorist attacks in the country”, are all mentioned in this article as why Egypt is suffering an energy crisis which leaves the country with a “20% gap between demand and supply of energy”. What the article does not mention, is that, in fact, the main reason Egypt does not have enough energy resources to meet public demand is because companies like BP take 50% of Egypt’s energy resources for themselves to sell for profit internationally. It is not that Egypt does not have enough energy to meet domestic demand, it simply does not have enough to meet both domestic need as well as corporate greed. Certainly, there are many reasons why domestic demand has increased, that is expected. The mystery is why these changes have not led to a renegotiation of Egypt’s agreements with the foreign energy companies, giving them a smaller share of extracted resources?
Keeping only 50% of your own oil and gas is leaving you 20% short of meeting domestic demand; imagine if you kept 75%, you would have a surplus. Or imagine if you nationalized the oil and gas sector and kept 100% of your own natural energy resources, and sold a portion internationally with profits going directly into the national budget.
http://www.gurufocus.com/news/324859/bp-signs-multibilliondollar-deal-in-egypts-energy-sector
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