Egypt is working on an agreement with Israel to boost its natural gas imports by about 58% from the current 950 million cubic feet per day, starting the second half (H2) of 2025.

Egypt is set to increase its imports of Israeli natural gas by 20% starting in October to reach 1.2 billion cubic feet per day, in an effort to reduce liquefied natural gas (LNG) imports during the winter season.

The Egyptian Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources is planning to increase its daily natural gas imports from Israel by 13%, equivalent to 150 million cubic feet, by October.

Egypt’s daily imports of Israeli liquified natural gas (LNG) increased by 18% as of August to nearly 1 billion cubic feet, compared to 850 million cubic feet daily in July.

Egypt’s imports of Israeli liquified natural gas (LNG) declined by 26% as of June to nearly 850 million cubic feet, compared to an average of 1.15 billion cubic feet daily in May.

Egypt is currently in negotiation with Norway’s Hoegh LNG to rent a regasification unit.

Egypt’s imports of Israeli natural gas are set to decline by 22% to 900 million cubic feet a day in summer, starting next June until September.

Egypt is looking forward to increasing natural gas imports from Israel by 26% to 1.450 billion cubic feet per day within the first half (H1) of 2025, compared to the current daily imports of 1.15 billion cubic feet.

Natural gas exports from the Israeli Leviathan offshore field to Egypt jumped 28% in 2023 to 6.3 billion cubic meters.

The Israeli natural gas supplies to Egypt and Jordan went up by 25% year on year (YoY) in 2023, despite being shortly disrupted over the Hamas-Israel war.

Natural gas imports from Israel to Egypt have surpassed the pre-Gaza war levels after rising 15% month on month (MoM) in January, hitting about 1.15 billion cubic feet per day.

The Egyptian imports of Israeli natural gas have reached around 900 million cubic feet a day in January 2024.

The Egyptian imports of Israeli natural gas have surpassed 1 billion cubic feet a day for the first time since its resumption in early November.

Egyptian imports of Israeli natural gas went up by 52% year on year (YoY) during the first nine months of 2023, hitting 236.6 billion cubic feet.

Natural gas imports from Israel to Egypt are expected return to pre-Gaza war levels on November 16th at 650 million cubic feet per day.

The Israeli natural gas flows to Egypt have increased to 60% in November.

The Israel-Hamas war will have economic repercussions for Egypt, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Kristalina Georgieva said.

Egyptian airline Air Cairo has suspended its flights to Israel for safety concerns amid the current tensions in the region.

Chevron has redirected its offshore Israeli natural gas shipments to Egypt via an alternative pipeline through Jordan, instead of the East Mediterranean Gas (EMG) pipeline, following the tensions in Israel and Gaza.

Egyptian imports of natural gas from Israel have declined by 19% to roughly 650 million cubic feet per day as of October 9th after the suspension of production from Israel’s Tamar offshore gas field.