GASCO provides détente seen imminent gas cylinders in Mecca,

National Gas and Industrialization Co. (GASCO) said on Sunday that it provided over 400,000 cooking gas cylinders in Mecca last week.

Mecca-based warehouses were bolstered by more than 42,000 cylinders on Friday.

In addition, working hours at the company's Jeddah-based station were doubled to over 19 hours around the clock to fulfill pent-up demand for butane cylinders, GASCO added.

The crisis will be over soon, Okaz newspaper quoted company officials as saying. Some inspectors in GASCO’s Jeddah branch said no customers were queuing up, as cooking gas cylinders had already been delivered to people's homes. 

“A détente is widely seen in Mecca, as warehouses have been supplied with more canisters,” said Eyas Al Hajeri, GASCO's newly appointed chief executive.

Jeddah and neighboring cities have been facing a shortage of cooking gas​ ​cylinders​ as ​prices have been hiked​ ​from SAR 15​ ​to SAR​ ​100​ ​on the black market, according to local Saudi​ ​newspapers.

Al Hajeri was ​named the new ​executive at the helm after a mandate approving Salman bin Mohammed Al-Jeshi's appointment as management director was retracted by the board earlier this month following the recent gas crisis.