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Egypt Coordinates with Aramco to Manufacture ‘Static Equipment’

Egyptian Minister of Petroleum Tarek el-Molla inspects locally manufactured equipment for the petroleum sector (Asharq Al-Awsat)
Egyptian Minister of Petroleum Tarek el-Molla inspects locally manufactured equipment for the petroleum sector (Asharq Al-Awsat)
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Egypt Coordinates with Aramco to Manufacture ‘Static Equipment’

Egyptian Minister of Petroleum Tarek el-Molla inspects locally manufactured equipment for the petroleum sector (Asharq Al-Awsat)
Egyptian Minister of Petroleum Tarek el-Molla inspects locally manufactured equipment for the petroleum sector (Asharq Al-Awsat)

The Egyptian Ministry of Petroleum has said Petrojet is coordinating with Saudi Aramco to establish workshops for manufacturing static equipment in the oil sector.

The ministry explained on Monday in a press statement, a copy of which was obtained by Asharq Al-Awsat, that the new workshops are scheduled to be established in King Salman Energy Park (SPARK), as approved by Aramco.

It added that they are coordinating with Saudi Luberef regarding cooperation in the manufacture of static equipment.

The central workshops have already been approved and contracts have been made to manufacture several static equipment.

The ministry will also coordinate with the Algerian company Sonatrach regarding cooperation in manufacturing static equipment in Algeria.

Petrojet has established five workshops in Egypt; two are being built in el-Alamein and Tebbin. The company also has an affiliated manufacturing workshop in Iraq.

According to Petrojet President Waleed Lotfy, the workshops' most important specialized equipment are heat exchangers, distillation towers, pressure vessels, heat treatment furnaces, air coolers, and repair and maintenance of obsolete static equipment.

Lotfy pointed out that this equipment helped implement the Zohr gas field development project, the West Delta gas field development, the nitrogen fertilizer complex project in Ain Sokhna, and the new asphalt complex at the Suez Petroleum Manufacturing Plant.

He explained that equipment manufacturing work developed from 6.8 tons in 2021 to 12 tons in 2023, noting that metal structure manufacturing work increased in the same period from 23 tons to 40 tons.

Workshops are valued at $160,000 compared to $105,000 in 2021, while the total manufacturing work carried out in the central workshops between 2021 and 2023 amounted to $594 million, including integrated manufacturing work by Porsche valued at $297 million.

Egyptian Minister of Petroleum Tarek el-Molla stressed that localizing and increasing the local manufacturing base of petroleum equipment and supplies necessary for oil and gas activities are among the main pillars for completing the strategic and vital projects.

The Minister inspected the work progress in the central workshops for manufacturing static equipment in el-Katameya, affiliated with Petrojet, followed up, and reviewed the results of developing the workshops to maximize the local product and reduce imports from abroad.

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Guterres Establishes Independent Institution on Missing Persons in Syria

19 December 2024, US, New York: UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres speaks during a press conference, ahead of a Security Council meeting. Photo: Bianca Otero/ZUMA Press Wire/dpa
19 December 2024, US, New York: UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres speaks during a press conference, ahead of a Security Council meeting. Photo: Bianca Otero/ZUMA Press Wire/dpa
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Guterres Establishes Independent Institution on Missing Persons in Syria

19 December 2024, US, New York: UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres speaks during a press conference, ahead of a Security Council meeting. Photo: Bianca Otero/ZUMA Press Wire/dpa
19 December 2024, US, New York: UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres speaks during a press conference, ahead of a Security Council meeting. Photo: Bianca Otero/ZUMA Press Wire/dpa

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres appointed on Thursday Karla Quintana of Mexico as Head of the Independent Institution on Missing Persons in Syria.

“Indeed, all international mechanisms to advance the protection of human rights in Syria and accountability for crimes committed – must have what they need to carry out their vital work,” he said.

The International Commission on Missing Persons in The Hague separately said it had received data indicating there may be as many as 66, as yet unverified, mass grave sites in Syria.

More than 150,000 people are considered missing, according to international and Syrian organizations, including the United Nations and the Syrian Network for Human Rights, it said.

Ahead of a UN Security Council meeting chaired by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Guterres underlined that Israel's widespread strikes on Syrian military infrastructure were “violations” of the country's sovereignty and called for them to cease, AFP reported.

Israeli warplanes have carried out hundreds of attacks across the country, including in the capital, Damascus.

Israeli officials said the strikes across Syria were aimed at destroying strategic weapons and military infrastructure to prevent them being used by rebel groups that drove President Bashar Assad from power this month.

Ahead of the Security Council meeting, Guterres called for the full restoration of Syria’s sovereignty, territorial unity, and an end to all fighting.

He condemned Israel for pushing its forces into a UN-run buffer zone on its border with Syria following the fall of Assad.

“Let me be clear, there should be no military forces in the area of separation other than UN peacekeepers -- period,” he said.

“Those peacekeepers must have freedom of movement to undertake their important work. Israel and Syria must uphold the terms of the 1974 Disengagement of Forces Agreement which remains fully in force.”

Guterres then stressed that the UN is working to facilitate a peaceful political transition in Syria, adding that adequate funding for humanitarian and recovery response is critical.

He said there is “a real risk that progress could unravel,” without an “inclusive, credible and peaceful” political transition that is Syrian led, on behalf of all its citizens.

“This is a decisive moment – a moment of hope and history, but also one of great uncertainty,” the UN chief said.

“Some will try to exploit the situation for their own narrow ends. But it is the obligation of the international community to stand with the people of Syria who have suffered so much,” he added.

Meanwhile, hundreds of Syrians protested Thursday in central Damascus calling for democracy and women’s rights, more than a week after the opposition coalition ousted Assad.

“We want a democracy, not a religious state,” men and women demonstrators chanted in central Damascus’s Ummayad Square, as well as “Free, civil Syria” and “the Syrian people are one”, while some protesters held signs including “No free nation without free women.”

The protest came more than 10 days after Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) launched a lightning offensive from their northwest Syria bastion, sweeping swathes of territory from government control and taking the capital on December 8, toppling Assad.