President Abdel Fattah El Sisi inaugurated the USD 1.96 bn Misr Fertilizers Production Company (MOPCO) fertilizer plant in Damietta. The expansion project, according to Al Ahram, has a urea production capacity of 2 mn tonnes, increasing Egypt’s annual urea output by 50%, which we reported yesterday. Egyptian entities own around 70% of the project, with Canadian fertilizer producer Agrium holding 26%, and the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries 3.3%. The new plant also aims to export 60% of its output. The environmental impact of the expansion project was fully assessed, Environmental Affairs Minister Khaled Fahmy said, according to Al Shorouk, in a nod to the problems with ‘community relations’ (we’re being euphemistic here) that bedeviled it in 2008. The ministry had a number of requirements, all of which MOPCO abided with, Fahmy noted.