Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources Tarek El Molla confirmed the delivery of natural gas to more than 8 million housing units in nine years.

He elaborated that this figure reflects the great progress that this project has achieved and the keen interest that the state has to make this service widely available to families across Egypt.

He pointed out that delivery rates increased due to the initiative of the Ministry of Petroleum, which began in 2018, with presidential directives to pay customers’ contributions to the cost of delivery in easy installments over seven years without down payment or interest for the new areas that natural gas enters for the first time under the project system.

This came within the framework of the periodic follow-up of developments in the implementation of the national project for the delivery of natural gas to homes and gas delivery projects within the presidential initiative Haya Karima (‘Decent Life’).

Projects of delivering natural gas to the villages of the Egyptian countryside, within the Haya Karima initiative, witnessed the implementation of gas lines and networks for about 926 villages so far. Internal and external gas networks are being established for about 723 villages, of which 234 villages have been pumped with natural gas, in addition to 203 villages that are under implementation with the main lines feeding them.