VOL. XL

No. 9

3-March-1997

EGYPT

IDSC Figures On Oil/Gas Production & Consumption & Suez Canal Traffic In 1996

Egyptian crude oil production amounted to 43,017,000 metric tons (about 860,340 b/d) in 1996, according to figures compiled by MEES from the monthly bulletins of the Egyptian Cabinet's Information and Decision Support Center (IDSC) - see Table 1 overleaf. This is some 2.1% lower than the 1995 output figure of 878,685 b/d released last year by the Egyptian General Petroleum...