The Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources, Tarek El Molla, said that the petroleum sector has finished up linking 724,000 housing units to natural gas grid throughout the period from July 2019 to January 2020, to bring the total number of linked houses to 10.750 million.

The Egyptian government plans to deliver natural gas to more than 86 new areas for the first time during the current fiscal year (FY) 2019/20.