VOL. XLI

No. 22

1-June-1998

EGYPT

Foster Wheeler Awarded Contract To Supervise Midor Refinery Project

Foster Wheeler International of the US has been awarded a contract to act as owners'representative for the $1.2bn, 5mn ton/year Midor refinery project near Alexandria. Thecontract is similar to that awarded to Repsol of Spain in October 1996 (MEES, 21October 1996), but cancelled in January 1997 in the wake of equity changes that gaveEgypt's public sector a 60% majority interest in Midor's...