VOL. XXXVIII

NO. 49

4-SEPTEMBER-1995

Egypt

EGPC Completes Plans For 1996 Bids Round

The Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation (EGPC) has completed plans for the1996 bids round. International firms and private Egyptian companies will beinvited, probably in January, to submit bids for seven blocks totaling 101,314sq. kms., or about 10% of Egypt's total area. Three of the blocks are located inthe Western Desert, two in the Gulf of Suez and one each in the Nile Valley andCentral Sinai. The target...