VOL. XXXVII

NO. 26

28-MARCH-1994

Egypt

Egypt To Go It Alone On Suez Hydrocracker

Egypt has decided to go ahead on its own with the building of a $450mn,36,000-b/d hydrocracking unit at Nasr Petroleum Company's Suez refinery, asenior Oil Ministry official said on 20 March. The Egyptian General PetroleumCorporation (EGPC) was originally seeking a foreign partner to share the costand help provide the technology (MEES, 17 January). "Amoco and Shell wereasked to share in the hydrocracker but Amoco said...