VOL. XLIII

No. 46

13-November-2000

EGYPT

Shell Signs GTL Development Protocol

Shell International Gas, a unit of the Royal Dutch/Shell Group, announced on 8 November the signature of a development protocol with the Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation (EGPC) for a gas-to-liquid (GTL) conversion plant to be built at West Demiatta on the Mediterranean coast. The project, costing $1.5bn for the plant plus $1bn for gasfield development, would require 600mn cu ft/d of gas and use the Shell Middle...