EGYPT

Concern Over Mounting Oil Consumption in Egypt

Dr. Muhammad Mahmud Shawkat, a senior official of the Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation (EGPC) and Editor-in-Chief of the EGPC's monthly magazine al-Bitrul, has joined other top Egyptian oil officials in voicing concern at the soaring consumption of oil products in Egypt (MEES, 10 and 31 December 1984).

Reiterating figures divulged by Egyptian Oil Minister Abd El-Hadi Kandil, Dr. Shawkat said in an article in the Cairo daily ...