VOL. XL

No. 28

14-July-1997

EGYPT

Work To Start This Year On Treatment Plant For East Mediterranean Gas Discoveries

Work will start this year on a gas gathering system and a gas treatment plant for thediscoveries made to date in the North Sinai and East Mediterranean Basin, according toEgyptian Oil Minister Hamdi al-Banbi. The Minister is quoted by the Cairo daily al-Ahramon 9 July as saying that a site for the proposed plant has been selected at al-Amidnortheast of al-Arish not far from the...