Orascom Construction (OC) has completed mechanical at Natgasoline, the largest methanol production facility in the US, the company said in a press release on Monday (pdf). The production facility, located in Beaumont, Texas, will have a capacity of up to 1.75 mn tonnes per annum. The main contractor for the project was Orascom Engineering & Construction USA.

In other OC news, the company has qualified for a contract to develop infrastructure on the 610 feddans expansion in New Cairo, said the head of the New Cairo Authority Moustafa Fahmy. OC and Arab Contractors were the only two out of the seven contractors bidding on the project to qualify for the EGP 200 mn development.

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