VOL. XXXVI

NO. 46

16-AUGUST-1993

EGYPT

Cabinet Approves Petrochemical And Coal Mining Projects

The Egyptian Council of Ministers on 9 August approved a project submitted bythe Oil Ministry for the production of ethylene and polyethylene at the al-'Amiriyapetrochemical complex west of Alexandria. The project, costing E1.7bn($516.7mn), forms part of the complex's second development phase and will beself-financed. The complex, which is now using imported ethylene as feedstock,has plants for the...