17/01/2022

In implementation of the mandates of President Sisi in Upper Egypt Week. The Ministries of Petroleum and Interior have completed converting 800 free taxis in Aswan to run by CNG.

Within the framework of coordination and joint cooperation between the Ministries of Petroleum and Mineral Resources and Interior to implement the assignments of President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi during the Upper Egypt Week to convert taxis that use liquid fuel in Aswan to run by CNG, which the Ministry of Interior adopted in cooperation with the petroleum sector, free of charge for taxis in conjunction with the Aswan celebrations its national holiday.

 

The conversion operations carried out by GASTEC and CARGAS, the two arms of the petroleum sector in the activity of converting and fueling vehicles to run by CNG, included about 800 taxis in the governorate so far instead of liquid fuels, to increase the number of vehicles converted to run by CNG by 100%. This represents a new success added to the presidential initiative to expand the use of CNG as fuel. Eng. Tarek El Molla, Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources, issued a number of directives that would facilitate the people of Aswan to use CNG as fuel in vehicles. These included placing the mobile station to fuel vehicles with CNG in Aswan with a capacity of fueling 500 vehicles per day to provide its services to Aswan citizens, in addition to completion of the implementation of directives to double the capacity of the GASTEC station for fueling vehicles with CNG. In this context, El Molla also directed the speedy completion of the implementation of 8 new stations, which will start operating successively from the end of this January until the end of the first quarter of this year, bringing the number of stations providing CNG fueling services to 9 stations to ensure the provision of service to Aswan citizens easily and conveniently.

 

Preparations are currently underway to operate the station that was set up in cooperation between GASTEC and the Nile Petroleum Company, with a capacity to fuel 1200 vehicles per day, and four other stations are being implemented in cooperation between GASTEC and Misr Petroleum, in addition to three stations being set up in cooperation between Cargas, CPC and Nile companies.