When Egypt inaugurated its vast Zohr gasfield in 2018, the government hailed the project for helping it achieve its ambitions to become energy self-sufficient and save an annual $2.8bn in gas import costs.
But instead of the expected energy bonanza, a gas shortage has left the country mired in daily blackouts this summer that have disrupted economic activity and everyday life for millions of Egyptians and sparked public anger.
Cairo has now been forced to resume LNG imports as declining natural gas output, surging demand for electricity and a fast-growing population stretch its power generation system.
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