Petroleum Minister meets with Sinopec head, Apache VP

Petroleum Minister Tarek El Molla met with the head of China’s state-owned Sinopec, Wang Yupu, who said his company is mulling a petrochemical project in the Suez Canal Economic Zone, Al Masry Al Youm reports. Also present at the meeting was the vice president of Apache, which previously sold a one-third stake in its Egyptian oil and gas assets to the Chinese company in a USD 3.1 bn transaction. China’s ambassador to Egypt also attended.