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Who owns Egypt's oil refinery?

The refinery, which originally came on stream in 1957, is owned by the Egyptian government through its Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation (EGPC) and operated by its subsidiary, the Alexandria Petroleum Co. The refinery includes a crude unit, vaccum unit, catalytic hydrotreater, lubes unit and asphalt unit.

Why is Egypt developing a new oil refinery?

As part of an ongoing programme by the Egyptian Government (Egyptian Ministry of Petroleum) to increase the oil-processing capacity of the country, the site is now being developed with a further refinery being constructed adjacent to it (the Citadel refinery).

What are the process units in the ERC refinery?

The various process units in the refinery include a vacuum distillation unit, a delayed coker unit, a naphtha hydrotreating unit, a diesel hydrotreating unit, a hydrocracker unit, and a sulphur recovery unit. The atmospheric residue supplied by the adjacent Cairo Oil Refining Company is the feedstock for the ERC refinery.

What is ERC Mostorod refinery?

The ERC Mostorod refinery with a processing capacity of the refinery of 4.7 million tonnes per annum (Mtpa) reached full-scale commercial operation in August 2019. The refinery converts low value petroleum products produced at the Cairo Oil Refining Company¡¯s (CORC) nearby refinery facility into medium and light distillates.