* Government hoping to avoid summer blackouts * Tender to supplement energy products donated by SaudiArabia * Raising energy prices could cause unrest CAIRO, May 31 (Reuters) – Egypt has launched a tender toimport hundreds of thousands of tonnes of petroleum products inthe third quarter of 2014, an energy official said on Saturday,as the country tries to stave off a summer energy crisis. Egypt’s government wants to avoid major power blackoutsduring the months of increased consumption in the summer, whenoutages are worsened by a dilapidated grid and a wastefulsubsidies system. The tender comes in addition to supplies from Saudi Arabia,which will deliver energy products to Egypt in July and Augustas part of an aid package announced after the Egyptian armyoverthrew Egypt’s first freely elected president, the IslamistMohamed Mursi. An official from the Egyptian General Petroleum Corp (EGPC)told Reuters that Egypt launched a tender on Thursday to import90,000 tonnes of […]