Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources Tarek El Molla has inspected the petroleum geographic region in Tanta, which includes the refinery belonging to the Cairo Petroleum Refining Company (CORC).

He also visited the shipping, packing, storage stations and warehouses belonging to the Petroleum Pipeline Companies (PPC), Misr Petroleum, Cooperation Petroleum Company (Copetrole), as well as Petrogas.

This comes as the region in Tanta provides gasoline, diesel, and butane supplies to the governorates of Gharbia, Qalyubia, Menoufia, Beheira, Kafr El-Sheikh, and Damietta.

El Molla highlighted the effectiveness of the Modernization program, since its launch in 2016, to work according to a clear plan that includes all aspects of the petroleum industry.

The minister stated that the Tanta Petroleum Geographical Zone, with its long history and importance, is one of the models that we are constantly developing to ensure that it continues to work on providing supplies of petroleum products, such as gasoline, diesel, and gas stoves, to areas with a large population density in the central Delta, in integration with the Alexandria region.

El Molla listened to an explanation from the heads of companies about the status of work progress in the plans to develop the petroleum geographic region.

Wael Rizk, President of CORC, explained that the refinery is witnessing development, replacement and renovation projects, including the implementation of a new cooling tower, which is being completed and operated with investments of about EGP 500 million, as well as supplying, installing and operating automatic measuring devices on 21 tanks in Mostorod and Tanta in agreement with the international company Honeywell at a cost of €537,000, and payment was agreed to be in Egyptian pounds.

During the inspection tour of PPC, Nabawi Mahmoud, head of the company, explained that it has 27 warehouses in the region, with a total capacity of 220,000 cubic meters, and it supervises the operation of lines with a total length of 1,100 km of product, crude, and butane lines.

Meanwhile, Copetrole Chairman Nasser Shouman presented the plan to develop its warehouses in the region, the first phase of which includes adding a new shipping canopy, replacing and renewing pumps and networks, and the automatic fire and alarm system. This coincides with the warehouse’s commitment to continue carrying out shipping operations, as the warehouse, which was established in 1973, ships about 5.3 million liters of diesel and gasoline daily.

During the tour of Petrogas warehouses, Mohamed Farhat, the company’s president, highlighted the region’s supply of butane gas to secure the needs of the governorates of Gharbia, Menoufia, Kafr El-Sheikh, and Beheira for domestic and commercial butane gas cylinders, with about 53,000 cylinders per day produced by the butane filling station, which relies on its fuel from the butane production of the Cairo Refining Refinery in Tanta.

Meanwhile, Misr Petroleum’s Chairman Mohamed Maged, explained what the company offers within the petroleum geographic region through its warehouses built on an area of ​​54,000 square meters and its storage capacity of nine tanks with a total of 17,000 tons of diesel, gasoline and low-sulfur diesel.