Public Sector companies succeed in marketing products worth L.E. 9 billions

The Egyptian Minister of Petroleum Sameh Fahmi stressed yesterday that the public sector succeeded in marketing basic oil products worth, L.E. 9 billion all over the country, especially in rural and new communities.

Addressing a meeting of petroleum public sector companies, Fahmi demanded a legislation to ban burning used oils to prevent pollution and to get maximum use of such oils by recycling and refining them again.

Fahmi said that there was a programme to recruit new graduates in the new Petroleum Trade Services Company and gas stations as of January 2002.