Middle East Economic Survey

VOL. LII

No 7

16-Feb-2009

EGYPT

Technip Wins Midor Coking Unit Contract, But Egypt’s New Refinery Plans Stall

Egypt has taken a small step towards upgrading its refining sector, with the Middle East Oil Refinery (Midor) awarding France’s Technip a €43mn engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract to expand the delayed coking unit at its 100,000 b/d refinery near Alexandria. But earlier plans to increase the refinery’s...