Egypt's electricity sector accounts for 60% of gas consumed during 2020/2021

CAIRO – 18 October 2021: Volume of natural gas consumption has doubled more than 20 times, reaching 47 million tons during the last fiscal year, according to Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources, Tarek El Molla.

El-Molla said in a statement, Sunday, that the electricity sector accounted for 60 percent of the gas consumed during the fiscal year of 2020/2021, the industrial sector 12 percent, and the quantities of household gas consumption amounted to 6 percent.

He added that the quantities of gas consumption of homes are targeted to reach 7 percent during the next fiscal year as a result of the intensification of projects to deliver natural gas to homes.

The minister pointed out that the total number of housing units that have been connected to natural gas since the start of activity has reached 12.3 million housing units over 41 years, of which 50 percent are during the last seven years.