Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Sources, Karim Badawi, visited the infrastructure for receiving, and storing petroleum merchandise and LNG at Sokhna Port, operated by Sumed and Sonker firms.
The tour included visiting the amenities of receiving crude oil and petroleum merchandise, the principle management unit, and the brand new pure gasoline transferring tasks to obtain the imported gasoline on the port then pumping it into the nationwide gasoline grid, contributing to protecting the home consumption necessities and the electrical energy sector as properly.
Throughout the tour, Engineer Karim Badawi emphasised that the SUMED firm performs an necessary position on account of its amenities, infrastructure, and storage tanks, which the state and the petroleum sector depend on via built-in work in sustaining the steadiness and securing the availability of petroleum merchandise and pure gasoline to the native market and the state’s financial sectors, particularly the electrical energy sector.
Badawi directed the need of growing proactive plans to make sure 24-hour operational effectivity, and to place in place the mandatory procedures and precautions to keep away from any issues that may hinder work.

