Cortem Group has been awarded the Assiut project, Egypt, which provides for the expansion and modernisation of the Assiut refinery to meet the growing demand for petroleum products in Upper Egypt.

The agreement for the upgrading of the Assiut refinery, signed between the two EPCs, the Egyptian ENPPI and the Italian Technip, and the End User Assiut National Oil Processing Company (ANOPC), provides for the addition of a new complex of naphtha and a hydrocracking complex.

Cortem Group will supply Technip and Enppi with 6,500 lighting fixtures, obstacle signaling lighting fixtures, over 5,000 enclosures, motive power panels and grounding systems. Among the lighting fixtures supplied, the LIFEX series, the flagship of the Group's lighting range that guarantees versatility, ease of installation and high lighting performance.

The completion of the expansion and modernisation project will further increase the refining capacity of the existing refinery, which currently produces 4.5 million tons per year (Mtpa) of distillation crude..