EGYPT

Egypt Considers Sinai Pipeline to Carry Iraqi Oil 

According to the Cairo daily al-Ahram on 20 March, Egypt is considering the possibility of constructing a 450-km. pipeline across Sinai to link the projected $1bn, 900-km. Iraqi-Jordanian pipeline in the east to the Sumed pipeline in the west. Iraqi crude oil delivered through the Jordanian-Iraqi pipeline to the Red Sea of 'Aqaba would presumably be ferried by a tanker shuttle service to the new Egyptian port of...