Egypt awards Midor refinery expansion contract to French firm

Egypt’s state-owned Middle East Oil Refinery Company’s (Midor) has awarded a $1.7 billion contract to expand its refinery complex in Alexandria to France’s TechnipFMC, MEED reported.

The plant, which is located in El-Amreya Free Zone, will see its capacity increased by 60 percent from 115,000 barrels per day (b/d) to 175,000 b/d.

TechnipFMC will provide construction, supplies, and engineering designs for the expansion.

Additionally, the expansion will raise the refinery’s current production of liquefied natural gas (LNG) by about 145,000 tons a year (t/y), benzene 95 by about 600,000 t/y and jet fuel by about 1.3 million t/y.

The total cost of Midor’s expansion project, which will be co-executed by Egypt’s state-run firms ENPPI and Petrojet, will amount to about $2.2 billion, the report added.