Damascus-Sana
Participants in the Conference of the Professional Union of Oil and Chemical Workers' Unions called for unifying the value of food in desert stations and fields, reopening restaurants in these gatherings, creating a mechanism to provide health care to retired oil workers, securing metal gas cylinders, and speeding up the application of the GPS monitoring system for servis Taxis and buses.
Participants in the conference held this morning at the Sahara Hotel under the title “A homeland we built with our sweat we protect it with our blood” pointed out the necessity of reinvesting the marble factory in Saboura and amending Law 26 of 2009 on quarries and the Forestry Law to make greater use of the extraction of underground wealth and work to secure the raw materials to operate the plant Car oils in Homs.
In his response to the participants' interventions, Eng. Khaled Al-Alaj, Assistant Minister of Oil and Mineral Resources for Petroleum Affairs, indicated that the shortage of gas cylinders came as a result of the Defense Laboratories Corporation's stopping the manufacture of cylinders now, pointing to the establishment of a special committee to follow up the implementation of the GPS system to implement it as soon as possible. Possible time to achieve its goal of knowing the distances traveled, monitoring fuel quantities and monitoring lines.
Dr. Mohamed Jeroudia, Assistant Minister of Oil and Mineral Resources for Planning and International Cooperation affirmed in his response that the ministry is working on implementing incentives for most of its subsidiaries, explaining that the ministry is working to overcome difficulties to secure base oils as a result of companies ’reluctance to submit to the tenders that have been announced.
Concerning the Damascus Marble Factory, the geologist Samir Al-Assad, Director General of the General Institution of Geology, indicated that the Foundation is studying the best way to invest the Damascus Marble Factory, explaining that the Foundation is working on amending Law 26 related to quarries in order to attract investors in addition to the investment of Jabal Jabal Aleppo saline, where its production reached 20 thousand Tons last year and we got an excess of salt.
In turn, Dr. Eng. Nabih Khurstin, Director General of the General Petroleum Corporation, explained that the procedures for preparing the tin plant in the Thawra field will soon be completed to start pumping oil to Homs, which will facilitate the process of delivering it through the transport line to the receiving point, pointing to the corporation’s endeavor to activate the contracts concluded with companies of friendly countries to increase Oil and gas production.
General Director of the General Organization for Chemical Industries, Osama Abu Al-Fakhr, stated that the shortage of manpower in the companies affiliated with the Ministry of Industry will be filled after the completion of the demobilized competition by announcing a new competition, indicating that the institution has developed a plan that included two phases to rehabilitate the "SAR" company and that there is no economic benefit from Rehabilitation of the serum plant, as it is completely destroyed
The conference was attended by a member of the central leadership of the Arab Socialist Baath Party, Muhammad Shaban Azouz, and the President of the General Federation of Trade Unions, Jamal al-Qadri.
