VOL. XXXVI

NO. 28

12-APRIL-1993

EGYPT

Talks On Western Desert Gas Line Prove Inconclusive

Talks among four companies - Shell, Repsol, Norsk Hydro and IEOC (Agip) -with significant gas finds in Egypt's Western Desert on the construction of aline to feed the gas into the national gas pipeline grid have provedinconclusive. Shell is apparently not willing to commit itself before fullyevaluating the gas find made in the Obayed permit last year, which, according toMr. Tarek Heggy, Chairman of Shell...