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ANRPC to double 92-95 octane fuel production next month

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Posted: August 14, 2018 at 8:56 pm   /   by   /   comments (0)

The Alexandria National Refining and Petrochemicals Company (ANRPC) will begin next month producing 850k tonnes of 92-95 octane petrol, doubling its annual capacity, Oil Minister Tarek El Molla said yesterday, Al Mal reports. ANRPC had begun trial operations at its USD 233 mn facility in September. Enppi and Petrojet, general contractors on the project, had completed 81% of the necessary work on the project at the time.

High-octane fuel unit of ANRPC to start operation in September

Petroleum Minister Tareq el Mulla inspected pilot operation of a new unit for producing high-octane fuel at Alexandria National Refining and Petrochemicals Company (ANRPC) in preparation for putting it into service as of September.

In a statement on Monday, Mulla said the 233-million-dollar project is one of the ministry’s projects which aim at upping local production of petroleum products and reducing imports.

He said the project will up ANRPC’s output of octane 92 and 95 fuel by 850,000 tons annually, thus doubling the company’s production.

This will also ratchet up the company’s contribution to the local market from 10 per cent to 21.5 per cent, he said.

Butane gas production will reach 38,000 tons annually, he said.

ANRPC Chairman reviewed a number of future projects which the company plans to carry out.

(Sources: Enterprise.press & The Egyptian Gazette)