Engineer Tarek El-Molla, Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources, confirmed that more than 1,450 villages in the governorates of the Republic will benefit from the natural gas delivery projects implemented by the petroleum sector within the first phase of the Decent Life (Hayah Karima) Initiative to develop Egyptian rural villages launched by President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi.
Al-Mulla explained that, within the framework of these projects, the delivery of natural gas to 120 villages has been completed, providing this civilized service to about 413 thousand housing units within the scope of these villages, and the implementation of the ground networks necessary to connect to about 530 other villages in preparation for the start of pumping natural gas is underway. To their homes as soon as the networks are completed, bringing the number of villages of the initiative benefiting from natural gas to 650 villages.
He referred to the readiness of the petroleum sector to start implementing projects to deliver natural gas to about 783 other villages as soon as the sewage connections to these villages are completed, allowing the start of extending natural gas networks.