When the Project is operating, will it make the air pollution worse in the Mostorod Area?
No. The Project will actually result in an improvement in the quality of air in Mostorod and the Cairo area. The ERC Project will enable CORC to replace mazout with natural gas as a fuel in its heaters and ERC will provide CORC with low-NOX burners, thereby significantly improving the quality of air in the Mostorod area. On a national level, when the Project is operational, each year the refining process will remove 93,000 tons of sulfur from fuels which would otherwise pollute Egypt’s atmosphere. This removal will result in an annual reduction of 234,000 tons of sulfur dioxide emitted, which represents 29.1% of the sulfur dioxide currently emitted overall in Egypt from burning sulfur-containing fuels.
