Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources Tarek El Molla met with the Minister of Environment Yasmine Fouad to discuss the progress of an environmental compliance plan set for the petroleum companies in the Red Sea and Suez Governorates.

This came in the light of the presidential directives to the High Committee of Environmental Reform and Compliance to solve the problem of industrial waste of a number of petroleum companies in the Gulf of Suez.

El Molla stressed the petroleum geographical zone’s commitment to upgrade its entities and equipment to implement the environmental plans in coordination with the Ministry of Environment.

He added that the companies always provide the needed data to the ministry in order to accelerate the execution of environmental sanitation plans.

The minister expressed his full agreement with these plans, noting that environmental sanitation is in favor of the petroleum industry which is vital to the national economy.

For her part, Fouad stated that the meeting witnessed presentations for the petroleum companies’ efforts to reach solutions for industrial waste in the Gulf of Suez by using new technologies in addition to the companies that are about to complete their environmental sanitation plans as well as those that stopped completely to waste in the Gulf of Suez.