VOL. XXXVI

NO. 47

23-AUGUST-1993

EGYPT

Oil Minister Signs North 'Amir Extension Agreement

Egyptian Oil Minister Hamdi al-Banbi on 14August signed an agreement with the state-owned General Petroleum Company (GPC)awarding the latter a 78-sq. km. extension to the North 'Amir permit in the Gulfof Suez. The approval for this extension was given last January (MEES, 25January). After the signing ceremony, Mr. Muhammad Fuad 'Abd al-'Azim, head ofGPC, said that his company was planning to embark...