Engineer Karim Badawi, Minister of Petroleum and Mineral
Resources, and Joe Saddi, Lebanese Minister of Energy and Water, signed the MoU
in Beirut. The signing was attended by Nawaf Salam, Prime Minister of Lebanon.
The ceremony was also attended by Alaa Moussa, Ambassador of Egypt to Lebanon,
Engineer Mahmoud Abdel Hamid, Executive Managing Director of the Egyptian
Natural Gas Holding Company (EGAS), Dr Mohamed El Bagoury, Supervisor of the
Central Administration for Legal Affairs at the ministry, and several senior
officials from the Lebanese Ministry of Energy and Water.
Badawi affirmed that the MoU builds on the outcomes of the
recent important visit to Lebanon by Dr Moustafa Madbouly, Prime Minister of
Egypt.
The minister explained that Egypt is fulfilling its role in
supplying Lebanon with natural gas to support energy security across Arab
countries. He noted that Egypt relies on an advanced and robust infrastructure
in the production, transportation, and export of natural gas.