EGYPT’S SYNERGY BETWEEN NATURAL GAS AND GREEN ENERGY TRANSITION: CAIRO’S ADVANCES IN LNG AND GREEN HYDROGEN

EGYPT’S SYNERGY BETWEEN NATURAL GAS AND GREEN ENERGY TRANSITION: CAIRO’S ADVANCES IN LNG AND GREEN HYDROGEN ARE SHAPING THE COP 27 AGENDA MICHAËL TANCHUM May 2022 Egypt’s energy policy is helping to change the terms of the Timmermans, the EU’s leading official for the European Green global debate on climate change by demonstrating that there Deal, the European Climate Law, and international negoti. [...] Now Egypt 2021 with the Belgian conglomerate DEME, already involved seeks to build on the growing momentum of its renewables in Egypt’s Mediterranean port capacity expansion, to conduct sector to become a global leader in the production of green feasibility studies for the production and export of green hydrogen and its derivatives. [...] In July 2021, Eni, one of Egypt’s leading natural Fund of Egypt and the Egyptian construction giant Orascom to gas partners, signed an agreement with EEHC to assess the build a green hydrogen facility in the industrial zone of the Red technical and commercial feasibility to produce both green Sea port of Ain Sokhna, near Fertiglobe’s subsidiary Egypt Basic hydrogen and blue hydrogen. [...] Climate Change Conference in Sharm el-Sheikh as more than a host but also as a key advocate for the larger role for natural gas in the process of energy transition, brokering a new energy relationship between Europe and the nations of Africa and the Middle East. [...] Both through its energy diplomacy and the further development of its renewable energy and green hydrogen production capacities, Egypt will be one of the primary actors over the next decade determining the shape and pace of energy transition in the MENA region and thereby also influencing the course of energy transition in Europe and Africa.