VOL. XXXIX

No. 18

29-January-1996

EGYPT

Banbi Inaugurates West Tawila Field

On 18 January Oil Minister Hamdi al-Banbi inaugurated the start of production from the government-owned Geisum Oil Company's West Tawila offshore field at the entrance of the Gulf of Suez at a rate of 2,500 b/d. The field's production facilities were constructed by Petrojet, an affiliate of the Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation (EGPC). Speaking at the inauguration ceremony, Dr. Ahmad Badr al-Din, head of...