VOL. XXXVII

NO. 9

29-NOVEMBER-1993

Egypt

Egypt Denies Israeli Gas Deal

Egypt on 22 November denied that it had agreed to supply natural gas toIsrael through a pipeline to be built from the Nile Delta. Dr. Muhammad Shawkat,Information Adviser to the Egyptian Oil Minister and Editor in Chief of theEGPC's al-Bitrul magazine, denied an earlier statement by a spokeswoman of theIsraeli Energy Ministry that Egypt had agreed to supply Israel with 2mn tons ayear of natural gas for 25 years using a pipeline...