Eighty-five thousand housing and commercial units in six Upper Egyptian governorates will be provided with natural gas in 2012, Egypt’s Petroleum Minister Abdullah Ghorab has said.
The government is committed to providing all governorates with natural gas according to fixed schedules, Ghorab told Al-Masry Al-Youm on Tuesday.
South Valley Petroleum Holding Company provided a detailed report on the plan to provide butane for 5,000 housing units in Beni Suef, 20,000 in Minya, 25,000 in Assiut, 10,000 in Sohag, 10,000 in Qena, 10,000 in Aswan and 5,000 in Fayoum.
The Petroleum Ministry has already provided 227,000 housing units with natural gas, most of which were in Beni Suef, Fayoum and Giza.
Eng Sherif Ismail, head of the South Valley Petroleum Holding Company, said that the government is working to provide natural gas to commercial entities and housing units in Upper Egypt.
This week, Ghorab and Giza governor Ali Abdel Rahman are to inaugurate a project for providing natural gas to 165 brick factories out of 200 located in the Arab Saeda area in Giza. All the factories are to be supplied with natural gas by the end of this year. The project will add money to the state treasury because natural gas in cheaper than other energy sources, said Seif Abdel Fattah, head of TownGas Company, which is supervising the project.
Translated from Al-Masry Al-Youm
