{"id":160262,"date":"2018-04-17T21:28:41","date_gmt":"2018-04-18T00:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=160262"},"modified":"2018-04-17T21:58:42","modified_gmt":"2018-04-17T23:58:42","slug":"egypt-auction-11-oil-blocks-mediterranean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/egypt-auction-11-oil-blocks-mediterranean\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt to auction up to 11 oil blocks in the Mediterranean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 Egypt will auction 10 or 11 oil and gas exploration blocks in the Mediterranean, said this Tuesday (17), in Cairo, the country\u2019s Petroleum minister, Tarek El Molla, according to information from news agency <em>Reuters<\/em>. The Egyptians also plan to auction blocks in the Red Sea by the end of 2018.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_160259\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-160259\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/sonatrach2018-300x200.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-160259 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/sonatrach2018-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/sonatrach2018-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/anba.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/sonatrach2018.jpg 580w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-160259\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sonatrach facilities in Algeria<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>Reuters<\/em>\u00a0said the country is expecting to increase its output enough to attain self-sufficiency and stop importing oil by 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Also regarding oil, the CEO of Algeria\u2019s state-run company Sonatrach, Abdelmoumen Ould Kaddour, said in Oran that the company plans on doubling its capacity in ten years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are attempting to become independent from this volatility in oil prices and to rely on volume instead,\u201d\u00a0<em>Alg\u00e9rie Presse Service (APS)<\/em>\u00a0quoted him as saying. \u201cBy increasing output, we become less vulnerable to the effects of the oil price slump,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Translated by S\u00e9rgio Kakitani &amp; Gabriel Pomerancblum\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-160258\">Mohamed El-Shahed\/AFP<\/div>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-160259\">APS Photos<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The announcement was made by the country\u2019s Petroleum minister, Tarek El Molla. In Algeria, Sonatrach announced that it plans to double its output.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":160258,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[421,2034,26561,259,11959,1964,11961,2078,2079],"class_list":{"0":"post-160262","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-egypt","9":"tag-algeria","10":"tag-argelia-en-2","11":"tag-gas","12":"tag-gas-ar","13":"tag-oil","14":"tag-petroleo-ar","15":"tag-sonatrach","16":"tag-tarek-el-molla"},"wps_subtitle":"The announcement was made by the country\u2019s Petroleum minister, Tarek El Molla. In Algeria, Sonatrach announced that it plans to double its output. ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}