VOL. XLI

No. 44

2-November-1998

EGYPT

President Mubarak Inaugurates Kuraimat Power Plant

Egyptian President Husni Mubarak on 18 October inaugurated the 1,200-MWKuraimat power plant, 95 kms. south of Cairo. The cost of the plant is estimated at about$1,200mn. The contract for the supply of two 600-MW turbine generators for the plant wasawarded to General Electric Company of the US in January 1994 and was followed one monthlater by the award of another contract to Babcock & Wilcox of Canada...