The Egyptian Ministry of Petroleum and the Bahrain Gas Corporation agreed to set up a joint gas and petrochemicals processing company, reported Al-Hayat . The new joint company will build a complex to extract Egyptian natural gas products such as propane and ethane. The company will produce 500,000 tons of ethane and 300,000 tons of propane per annum. These two substances are highly used as raw materials for manufacturing chemicals in the Arabian Gulf region. — (menareport.com)
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