Middle East Economic Survey

VOL. XLVII

No 45

8-November-2004

EGYPT

Sumed Studies Alternative Expansion Plans

The Arab Petroleum Pipeline Company (Sumed), which operates the 2.4mn b/d capacity crude pipeline linking the Red Sea with the Mediterranean, has commissioned a $200,000 feasibility study into proposed expansion plans. One possibility being discussed is to reverse the flow in the existing pipeline that runs from Ain Sukhna in the Gulf of Suez to Sidi Kerir on the Mediterranean coast to the...