New projects to secure Egypt’s gas needs

 19-05-2019 Media in\ Cairo
The Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources announced the implementation of new projects to secure its gas needs at an investment cost of 145 million dollars.
She referred to the project to transport the Ghaffin field gas to the Western Desert Gas Complex and the Amriya Potagaz plant, which includes a 30-inch diameter 70-km diameter gas line, an 18-inch diameter gas pipeline with a length of 5 km and two gas pressure compressors before entering the complex. Year-end, compressors during the first quarter of 2022.
Eng. Tariq Al Mulla, Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources of Egypt, said that the Ministry’s strategy attaches great importance to achieving optimum economic exploitation of natural gas in light of Egypt’s success in increasing production and accelerating the development of new discovered fields and extracting value added derivatives through the sustainable operation of the Western Desert Gas Complex The plant is one of the important axes of this strategy, as it contributes to the local market needs of potash and other derivatives which are used as inputs in the Egyptian petrochemical industry which has been expanded As one of the important resources in providing foreign exchange to Egypt.
During the inspection tour of the Western Desert Gas Complex in Alexandria of the Egyptian Natural Gas Company (GASCO), Mulla explained that during the past year, the complex succeeded in producing more than 2 million tons of products which helped meet the needs of the local market by 451 thousand tons of potash. Million tons of ethane / propane mixture. Alexandria oil refineries were also supplied with 91,000 tons of condensates. The total commercial propane produced from the complex reached about 360 thousand tons, which were fully exported to international markets.