By: almotamar.net - SANA'A - The Yemen Gas Company (YGC) has supplied the local market with a million and two thousand five hundred thousand propane gas cylinders in a move to prevent any gas shortage in YGC stores and in its agents' stores during the holy month of Ramadan, a source at the YGC said.
Abdul-Wahab Salah, an official in the Gas Operations Room, told almotamar.net that there is a stable gas supply in all areas of the country.
"According to the reports of YGC follow-up committees and around-the-clock field teams, there is enough gas quantity for consumers," he explained.
By the beginning of Ramadan, about 30 storerooms in the Capital City were fed with around 350 thousand cylinders while storerooms in other provinces were fed with 900 thousand cylinders, the source added.
The YGC also supplied its 300 official agents with a sufficient gas quantity to cope with people's gas demand.
The YGC has also vehicles that roam the streets of the Capital City as well as the cities of Ibb, Sa'dah, Aden and Dhamar on Sundays, Tuesdays and Thursdays selling gas cylinders directly to households, the source said, estimating the local gas consumption at 35 thousand cylinders per day.
The YGC has assigned a special committee to monitor the gas supply situation in the Capital City and other provinces and formed an operations and follow-up room to receive reports on shortage in propane gas whose consumption increases in Ramadan.
Minister of Oil and Minerals Khaled Mahfoodh Bahah along with Omar Al-Arhabi, YGC General Manager, and Dr. Najeeb Al-Awig, YGC Deputy GM, had conducted a field visit early September to the Ministry of Oil and Minerals' office and gas filling installations in the city of Taiz to ensure enough supply of gas and prevent any relevant confusion during Ramadan.
The Minister had stressed the importance of the Ministry's staff being ready to face any emergency and stop any manipulation or monopoly. He emphasized that it is crucial to use all means to stop gas smuggling.
A gas filling station has been established in Taiz's Al-Janadiyah area at a cost of $300,000 to meet local gas needs in the provinces of Taiz and Ibb.
The Minister disclosed unnamed traders' attempts to unfairly obtain oil byproducts by demanding unrealistically large quantities and then monopolize them.
He confirmed that the available storerooms can provide the gas quantity needed in Ramadan, assuring people that there will be no gas problems and that gas is available in large quantities nationwide for several weeks.
More than one hundred and sixty thousand gas cylinders are allocated to Taiz and Aden only, the Minister said.
He further stated that the total production of Aden Refineries is allocated to the local market and is not to be exported so as to fight monopoly, provide all types of oil byproducts, ensure supply stability during Ramadan and prevent any manipulation by traders of lax moral fabric.