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Tragency Middle East · Est. 1981

Partners in process optimization since 1981.

A family business bringing the world's leading process technology to oil, gas, petrochemical, fertilizer, water and energy plants across Egypt and the Gulf.

  • 45years in business
  • 3generations of one family
  • 3bases: Cairo, Ismailia, Dubai
  • 8markets, from aviation to water

Since 1981

Forty-five years of work, drawn as one plant. It grows the way the company did; pick any year to jump there.

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    Tragency Middle East · Drawing TME-1981Our plant, since 1981
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    A family business since 1981

    You reach the owners.

    Tragency was founded in 1981 as a family business, and forty-five years later it still is. Three members of the family lead it today, the third generation has joined them, and one partner has become family in every way that matters.

    We have chosen to stay a boutique company and to stay hands-on. When you call Tragency you do not reach a call centre or a distant regional office. You reach the owners, who will be on site with you and still be here for your next turnaround, and the one after that.

    Big enough to bring you the world's best technology. Small enough that every relationship is personal.

    Progress is not achieved alone. It is achieved in partnership: with you, with our technology partners, and with all who share the vision of a greener, safer and more efficient industry.

    Reference projects

    The work behind the name.

    Fifteen jobs from Egypt's leading plants, with the makers we brought to them.

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    Filtration and separation

    Dust filter

    1,400MMSCFD gas

    Client
    UGDC (BP and EGPC)
    Site
    Port Said plant
    Partner
    Pall
    Read the story
    Filtration and separation

    Inlet separator upgrade

    1,400MMSCFD, up from 1,200

    Client
    UGDC (BP and EGPC)
    Site
    Port Said plant
    Partner
    FMC Separation Technology
    Read the story
    Filtration and separation

    Liquid-gas coalescer upgrade

    1,400MMSCFD, up from 1,200

    Client
    UGDC (BP and EGPC)
    Site
    Port Said plant
    Partner
    Pall
    Read the story
    Filtration and separation

    HP compressor scrubber upgrade

    0new vessels: more capacity in the same ones

    Client
    Pharaonic Petroleum Company
    Site
    Port Said gas processing plant
    Partner
    FMC Separation Technology
    Read the story
    Filtration and separation

    Offshore separators

    16,000barrels a day

    Client
    ADES and Petrozenima
    Site
    Mobile offshore production unit
    Partner
    Sulzer
    Read the story
    Water

    Oily water treatment

    8,000m³ a day

    Client
    KPC (Apache and EGPC), with Enppi
    Site
    Kalabsha field, Western Desert
    Partner
    IDC
    Read the story
    Reformer tubes

    Primary reformer revamp

    1,200tonnes a day

    Client
    Delta Fertilizers
    Site
    Mansoura plant
    Partner
    Manoir, BD Energy, MP
    Read the story
    Reformer tubes

    Reformer tube inspection

    285tubes inspected

    Client
    AQFC (licensor KBR)
    Site
    Ain Sokhna
    Partner
    MP
    Read the story
    Process packages

    Deaerator

    26m³ an hour

    Client
    ANRPC, with Enppi
    Site
    Alexandria
    Partner
    Sterling
    Read the story
    Water

    Two desalination plants

    17,000m³ a day

    Client
    NOPWASD
    Site
    Marsa Matrouh and El Arish
    Partner
    UNIHA and Orascom
    Read the story
    Water

    Raw, demi and condensate water

    EUR 5Mutility packages

    Client
    ASORC, with Enppi
    Site
    Assiut
    Partner
    IDC
    Read the story
    Process packages

    Two ammonia compressors

    EUR 6.5Mcompressor order

    Client
    APRC, with Enppi
    Site
    Alexandria
    Partner
    LMF
    Read the story
    Process packages

    Boil-off gas and refrigeration

    EUR 24Mour biggest order as agents

    Client
    Sonker, with Petrojet
    Site
    Ain Sokhna
    Partner
    REI
    Read the story
    Water

    Phenol wastewater treatment

    EUR 10MEgypt's first such plant

    Client
    Nasr Petroleum Company, with Petrojet
    Site
    Suez
    Partner
    IDC
    Read the story
    Aviation

    CDFX water barrier

    100%market share

    Client
    Misr Petroleum Company
    Site
    Cairo
    Partner
    Parker and Velcon
    Read the story
    Technology partners

    The world's makers, brought to your plant.

    • COES
    • Parker
    • Schmidtsche Schack ARVOS
    • arflu
    • REI
    • Mayekawa
    • Polaris
    • Gardner Denver
    • UNIHA
    • Danfoss
    • Foerster
    • Belleli
    • Greens Combustion
    • SUPCON
    • Rotork
    • Engemasa
    • LMF
    • IDC
    • IGS
    • Tema India
    • Villa Scambiatori
    Clients

    Trusted by the region's plants.

    • Shell
    • Eni Saipem
    • Enppi
    • SIDPEC
    • SUMED
    • Doosan
    • Elsewedy Electric
    • Petrobel
    • Rashpetco
    • Khalda
    • ASORC
    • Abu Qir Fertilizers
    • Degremont Suez
    • Sonker
    • NOPWASD
    • Nasr Petroleum
    • Ezz Steel
    • Suez Steel
    • ADES
    • Dodsal
    • EFC
    • EHC
    • ERC
    • EPROM
    • EPP
    • EMC
    • SEGAS
    • SOPC
    • Sidi Krir
    • QPIC
    • Petromaint
    • P&G
    • TCI
    • SEMADCO
    • APC
    • Al-Majd
    • UGDC
    • AMOC
    See how it works

    World-class equipment. Our engineers on your site.

    We supply, install, inspect and service the equipment that keeps oil, gas, fertilizer and water plants running.

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    Heat transfer

    Heat exchangers, sized for your duty.

    Shell and tube, plate and spiral units from leading makers, with local engineers behind every one.

    Site service

    When it fouls, we pull it.

    1. 01Unbolt the channel
    2. 02Lift it clear
    3. 03Draw the tube bundle
    4. 04Clean, inspect, return to service
    Inspection

    Find the thin wall before it leaks.

    An eddy current probe runs every tube end to end, so you replace only what is failing.

    Eddy current · tube scanReady
    VerticalHorizontalProbe 0.0 m
    Trusted on site

    Delivered for the region's leading plants.

    El DeltaFertilizer
    SidpecEthylene
    ASORC AssiutNaphtha complex utilities
    Remeilah 3Desalination, 12,000 m³/day
    With Tranter · ARVOS · Engemasa · MP Foerster · SUPCON
    1981Founded
    3Bases: Dubai, Cairo, Ismailia
    What we supply

    Six product lines, one team that installs them.

    Heat transfer

    Shell and tube and plate exchangers, spiral units, fired heaters, columns, condensers and waste heat boilers.

    Tranter · ARVOS

    Reformer tubes

    Tubes, manifolds and coils for ammonia and hydrogen reformers, steam cracking and steel furnaces.

    Engemasa

    Fluids measurement and control

    Valves and actuators, valve sealant, metering skids, pressure reducing stations, hydraulic oil purification.

    SUPCON

    Filtration and separation

    Coalescers, separator internals, demisters and vane packs, fuel gas conditioning, air intake filters.

    Liquid, gas and solid separation

    Water and wastewater plants

    Reverse osmosis, sea and brackish water desalination, demineralised water, zero liquid discharge, ultrafiltration.

    Remeilah 3, 12,000 m³/day

    Process and utility packages

    Instrument air packages and dryers, boil off gas recovery, refrigeration, flares and loading arms.

    Packaged and commissioned
    TEMA type explorer

    Build your exchanger.

    Pick the three letters you specify every day. Switch on x-ray to see what changes inside.

    Front head
    Shell
    Rear head
    AES1000 × 6096

    Reformer tubes

    Twenty degrees too hot halves a tube's life.

    Reformer tubes are designed for about 100,000 hours at their design wall temperature. Drag the temperature and watch what overheating costs.

    11.4years of expected tube life

    Rule of thumb: 20 °C above design halves tube life. Design basis 100,000 hours (API 530).

    Filtration and separation

    One stream in. Gas, oil and water out.

    A well stream arrives as one mix. The internals of a three phase separator slow it, settle it and send each phase to its own outlet.

    1. 1Inlet deviceBreaks the stream's speed and drops the liquid out of the gas
    2. 2Calming baffleA perforated plate that evens the flow so droplets settle
    3. 3Sand jets and pansWash settled sand to the drains without a shutdown
    4. 4WeirOil spills over it, water stays behind
    5. 5Vortex breakersStop the outlets drawing gas into the liquid lines
    6. 6Vane packCatches the last oil mist before the gas leaves
    Fluids measurement and control

    Turn it by hand. Feel it let go.

    Every motor operated valve has a handwheel for when the power is off. The first few degrees take the most force. That is breakaway torque, and it is what we size actuators by.

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    Heat transfer

    Opened on site. Every plate checked.

    Plate heat exchangers foul and their gaskets age. We open the pack where it stands, clean and inspect each plate, regasket where needed and close it to its design length.

    Pull the pack apart

    0of 40 plates open
    Water and wastewater plants

    It takes 60 bar to beat the sea.

    Reverse osmosis pushes seawater through membranes at around 60 bar. Salt stays behind, fresh water comes through. At Remeilah 3 that is 12,000 cubic metres a day.

    0bar at the membranes

    Tilt the jug to pour. Seawater pushes back at about 27 bar: below that, nothing comes through.

    Process and utility packages

    Bring the arm home in one move.

    A top loading arm swings out from the gantry, drops into the tanker's hatch and seals its vapour hood, so nobody on the bay lifts a hose. We supply, install and service loading arms and the packages around them.

    Drag the arm to the open hatch

    Ask about loading arms
    Chemical injection packages

    Every joint tested before it ships.

    A chemical injection package arrives as one skid: tank, strainer, calibration column, two dosing pumps and their header. We pipe it, test every joint and run it before it leaves the shop.

    0of 4 joints made

    Flares

    Three pilots, then the flame.

    A flare burns off gas the plant cannot use, safely and high above it. Its pilots burn day and night so the flare is always ready to take a release. We supply flare stacks, tips and their ignition systems.

    See it at full size

    Put E‑101 in your plant.

    Spin the exchanger here, or open it in augmented reality on your phone and walk around it at real scale.

    QR code that opens this exchanger on your phone

    Scan with your phoneto place it in your plant at real size.

    Site services

    Our crews, your shutdown.

    Heat exchangersInspection and cleaning, bundle pulls, tube testing
    ReformersFull range of site services and tube eddy current inspection
    Actuators and MOVsSurvey, overhaul and testing on site
    Separation packagesLiquid, gas and solid separation; oily water treatment
    CommissioningFactory acceptance tests, start up and handover
    Tragency Process Conference
    TPC 2027

    A day with the engineers behind the region's plants and the makers behind the equipment. Register your interest and we will send you the date and programme first.

    Register for TPC 2027
    Last time: TPC 2026

    The region's plant engineers with our partners on stage, questions from the floor, and a gala evening to close.

    • The Tragency screen on stage at TPC 2026On stage
    • A question from the floor at TPC 2026Questions from the floor
    • Everyone at TPC 2026 together under the Tragency screenOne room
    • Guests at the TPC 2026 gala evening in front of the Tragency backdropThe gala evening
    Free plant health check

    Book an engineer for your plant.

    We inspect your heat exchangers or reformer tubes and send a written report.

    Cairo +20 2 2623 3110
    Dubai +971 4 260 2195
    Email sales-tragency@tragency.com

    We would like to grasp this opportunity to extend our gratitude to TME for the distinguished efforts and timely support extended to ensure the smooth execution of this job.

    Alexandria Mineral Oil Co. (AMOC)All client letters