Egypt witnesses convert of 42K cars to work in dual fuels in 2019/20 – Egypttoday

Egypt witnesses convert of 42K cars to work in dual fuels in 2019/20 – Egypttoday

Fuel Station in Egypt - File Photo





CAIRO - 19 July 2020: 42,000 cars were converted to work in dual fuels (gas / gasoline) during the fiscal year 2019/2020, an increase of 25 percent on an annual basis, according to Minister of Petroleum Tarek el-Molla said Sunday.

Molla said in a statement that the total number of cars that have been converted since the start of activity has reached about 320,000 cars.

He pointed to the establishment of 19 new gas supply stations in the governorates of Qena, Assiut, Minya, the Red Sea, Beni Suef, Qalyubiya, Sharqia, Port Said, Giza and Cairo, bringing the total number of stations to 206 stations in 23 governorates and operating 3 new transfer centers for a total of 74 transfer centers nationwide.

This came during the visit of the Minister of Petroleum to the Integrated Center for Supplying and Converting Cars to Work with Natural Gas as a Gas of the Gastec Company to check on the services provided to citizens of the owners of cars operating on natural gas, where the Center provides car conversion services to work with dual fuel (gas / gasoline), as well as supplying about 1300 cars