Mr Asim Jihad spokesman of the Iraqi Oil Ministry announced that 250,000 plastic gas cylinders are to be imported within the 2012 budget.

Mr Jihad said that these cylinders will be equipped with a certain un disposable material to prevent forgery and cheating so that to know the original from forged ones.

He said that the ministry observed the entrance of 1 and a half million gas cylinders that contravened Iraqi standards. The ministry imported 100,000 plastic gas cylinders.

(Sourced from Aswat Aliraq)