VOL. XXXI

NO. 42

25-JULY-1988

EGYPT

Bapetco Awards Contracts for Gas Line

Bapetco (EGPC/Shell Winning) has awarded contracts for the supply of pipefor, and the construction of, the 270-km. gas line linking the BED-3 gasdiscovery in the Badr al-Din concession in Egypt's Western Desert to thepetrochemical complex at al-'Amiriya near Alexandria on the Mediterranean (MEES,17 August 1987). The contract for the supply of the pipe, worth about $33mn,went to the two West German firms Mannesmann and Hoesch...