Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation chief executive Salah Abdel Kerim has inspected development work at the Agroud crude oil storage facility in Suez governorate, where capacity upgrades are under way to expand the country’s strategic reserves.
Abdel Kerim said the upgrades, operated by the Petroleum Pipelines Company, are key to boosting operational efficiency, strengthening competitiveness and attracting foreign investment, and directed management to keep up specialised training to maintain team readiness. The systems are being integrated into centralised control rooms and SCADA networks that are critical for distributing crude oil and petroleum products nationwide.
The site visit, attended by representatives from the Petroleum Pipelines Company and engineering firms EPROM, Petrojet and ENPPI, concluded with officials inspecting the control room and warehouses and assessing the facility’s emergency readiness. Abdel Kerim ordered periodic specialised engineering inspections for all storage tanks.
The visit follows an inspection of strategic crude storage facilities at Ras Gharib and Ras Shukeir in the Eastern Desert on July 13, where officials examined ways to secure electricity supply, complete essential pipeline construction and improve manoeuvring capacity at Ras Shukeir Port as part of Egypt’s broader push to expand storage capacity and ease distribution bottlenecks.
Source: (egyptoil-gas.com)