Midor Refines 9.3 MMBBL of Crude in Q1 2020 - DAILY NEWS EGYPT

Sunday, 19th April 2020

Middle East Oil Refinery (Midor) has refined approximately 9.3 million barrels (mmbbl) of domestic and imported crude oil in Q1 2020, according to a press release.

Gamal ElKareish, Chairman and CEO of Midor, stated that the company has produced and delivered approximately 80% of the total products to the local market. Such products include about 43,000 tons of butane, 325,000 tons of high-octane gasoline, 646,000 tons of diesel, in addition to 72,000 tons of coal and 14,000 tons of sulfur. On top of that, the company exported 265,000 tons of jet fuel to global markets.

Additionally, ElKareish added that production remains uninterrupted as a result of implementing preventive maintenance for equipment so as to maintain strategic supplies of petroleum products to the local market.

Egypt Invests EGP 43 B in Assiut Oil Projects - EGYPT TODAY

Sunday, 21st July 2019

Investments in oil production and refining projects in Assiut total EGP 43 billion, sources in the Ministry of Petroleum told Egypt Today.

Projects include establishing a refining unit for producing high-octane gasoline, as well as a complex for the production of gasoline and diesel.

The ministry is building a number of new refining projects in Upper Egypt to meet the demand for petroleum products.

Egypt is carrying out six refining megaprojects with around $9 billion investments, as a part of the oil and gas sector’s Modernization Project, Minister of Petroleum Tarek El Molla previously stated.

In May, El Molla reviewed the situation of the mazut hydro-cracking complex at the Assiut National Oil Processing Company (ANOPC). The $1.9-billion project will use 2.5 million tons of mazut to produce higher-value products like diesel, naphtha, and butane.

Egyptian Refining Co.’s $3.7 Billion Plant Will Start Up in September - BLOOMBERG

November 9, 2017, 2:34 PM GMT+2Mirette Magdy

• Plant will pare country’s need for imported fuel: Chairman
• Refinery is part of plan to raise local processing capacity

Egyptian Refining Co.’s new $3.7 billion processing plant will begin operations in September and save the government some $300 million a year by reducing the country’s reliance on imported fuel, its chairman said.

Ahmed Heikal, who is also chairman of investment company Qalaa Holding, a 19 percent shareholder in the project, said construction of the refinery will be completed in June, with operations to begin in September. The Cairo facility will ramp up output to 98 percent of capacity by the end of 2018.

First petrol station to sell LPG opens in Nicosia - CYPRUS MAIL

August 4, 2017

Annette Chrysostomou

The first petrol station in Cyprus selling liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) for gas-fuelled vehicles has opened in Nicosia after securing all the necessary licences.

The petrol station which is owned by oil and gas company Petrolina and carries the Agip brand is located on Larnaca Avenue in Nicosia. According to a statement by Petrolina, it meets all the safety and environmental standards of the EU, complies with Cyprus legislation and the regulations set out by the energy ministry.

“Business moves of this kind offer the consumer alternatives to energy use and contribute to a better quality of life,” Energy Minister Giorgos Lakkotrypis commented.


Dinos Lefkaritis, director of Petrolina said the move is part of the company’s strategy to offer innovative products, adding “the company’s objective is to operate other petrol stations with LPG in the near future.”