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EU. The European Commission has approved the public aid proposed jointly by thirteen Member States for the second major project of common European interest concerning hydrogen.
LEBANON / ISRAEL. Negotiations on maritime boundaries between Lebanon and Israel are expected to end soon with an agreement allowing Beirut to extract natural gas from an offshore field.
CYPRUS. The partners of the Aphrodite gas field approve a $192 million financing that will allow the drilling of a first well in this very promising field.
ITALY / ALGERIA. Eni announces the acquisition of the activities of the British BP in Algeria (BP.L), including the gas fields of In Salah and In Amenas in the south of the country.
ALGERIA / FRANCE. Subsidiary of Europlasma, Inertam signs a framework agreement with Inertam opening the way to the treatment of Algerian asbestos waste in France.
ALGERIA / FRANCE. Rejecting information published by the Africa Intelligence website, TotalEnergies has indicated that it is continuing its involvement in the project to build a petrochemical complex in Arzew in Algeria.
CYPRUS. In two separate press releases published on Monday 22 August 2022, TotalEnergies and Eni announce a "significant gas discovery" in Cyprus...
EU. The European Commission is to provide a total of almost €1.2 billion in EU funding for sixty-one collaborative defence research and development projects.
ALGERIA / ITALY / FRANCE. The Algerian Sonatrach signs a "production sharing" contract with the American Occidental Petroleum, the Italian Eni and the French TotalEnergies.
FRANCE / ITALY. Côte d'Azur-based EA Pharma continues its external growth operations with the acquisition of Italian company Stardea, which specialises in food supplements, medical devices and dermocosmetics.
FRANCE. During "Choose France", the French-Italian STMicroelectronics and the American GlobalFoundries announced the construction of a semiconductor production plant in Crolles, near Grenoble.
TUNISIA. The Tunisian pharmaceutical manufacturer Teriak will benefit from a loan of 5 million Tunisian dinars to improve its productivity and increase its energy efficiency.
LIBYA. The Libyan National Oil Company says the oil port of Zouetina has temporarily resumed operations "in order to avoid environmental disasters that may occur".
ALGERIA / SPAIN / MOROCCO. Relations between Algeria and Spain, disrupted since March 2022, are experiencing a new episode of tension as Madrid wants to send back to Morocco part of the Algerian gas it receives.
EU. In a report entitled "Metals for clean energy: ways to solve Europe's raw materials challenge", the European Association of Metal Producers calls for and proposes solutions to avoid a shortage.