Minister of Petroleum: Development of gas Sector Serves 60 Million Citizens

Eng. Tariq Al-Mulla, Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources, announced that about 60% of the housing units to which natural gas was connected over the past 42 years have been achieved during the last eight years alone, with about 8.3 million housing units out of more than 14 million housing units benefiting from the natural gas level of the country so far.

The minister pointed out that this development in the rates of natural gas delivery to homes serves more than 60 million citizens in these units and provides about 250 million gas cylinders annually.

This came during the minister's speech before the meeting, which was held in the presence of the leaders of the petroleum sector and the ambassadors of the European Union (EU) and France in Cairo, at the conclusion of the joint project funded by the EU, the French Development Agency and the World Bank to deliver natural gas to about 2.3 million housing units in 20 governorates in cooperation with the Egyptian Natural Gas Holding Company to In addition to supporting the company's digital transformation projects to implement the ERP system, supporting the restructuring of the gas market and establishing the market's regulatory body.