Electricidad En Egypto Egypto

Egypt is an important non-OPEC energy producer. It has the sixth largest proved oil reserves in Africa. Over half of these reserves are offshore reserves. Although Egypt is not a member of OPEC, itis a member of the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries.[2]
Commercial quantities of oil were first found in 1908, and more petroleum was found in the late 1930s along the Gulf of Suez.Later, large oil fields were discovered in the Sinai Peninsula, the Gulf of Suez, the Western Desert, and the Eastern Desert. The Abu Rudeis and Ra's Sudroil fields in the Sinai, captured by Israel in1967, were returned to Egyptian control in November 1975, and the remaining Sinai oil fields reverted to Egyptian control by the end of April 1982. As of 2005, Egypt's proven oil reserves wereestimated at 3.7 billion barrels (590×106 m3), of which 2.9 billion barrels (460×106 m3) was crude oil and 0.8 billion barrels (130×106 m3) were natural gas liquids.[2] Oil production in 2005 was 696,000barrels per day (110,700 m3/d), (down from 922,000 barrels per day (146,600 m3/d) in 1996), of which crude oil accounted for 554,000 barrels per day

Major discoveries in the 1990s have given naturalgas increasing importance as an energy source. As of 2005, the country's reserves of natural gas are estimated at 66 trillion cubic feet (1.9×1012 m3), which are the third largest inAfrica.[3] Probable reserves have been placed at or more than 120 trillion cubic feet (3.4×1012 m3). Since the early 1990s, significant deposits of natural gas have been found in the Western Desert, in the NileDelta and offshore from the Nile Delta. Domestic consumption of natural gas has also risen as a result of thermal power plants converting from oil to natural gas. As of 2002, Egypt's production andconsumption of natural gas are each estimated at 941 billion cubic feet
The Egyptian electric power system is almost entirely integrated, with thermal stations in Cairo and Alexandria and generators...