Why isn’t the Project being built in the desert rather than in Mostorod?
The Project is an expansion of the existing CORC Refinery and is based on further refining the petroleum products which CORC presently produces. The new products will be passed to EGPC for distribution within Cairo and Upper Egypt. It would not be economically feasible to build the Project outside of the Mostorod Petroleum Complex due to the high cost of building many tanks and pipelines from the desert back to Mostorod, which is the distribution location for the refined products.
