CAIRO: Egyptian Prime Minister Kamal el-Ganzouri met with Minister of Supply and Internal Trade Gouda Abdel Khalek and Minister of Petroleum Mohamed Ghorab to discuss the gas canisters crisis. The new cabinet is considering using the armed forces to protect the process of distributing subsidized gas canisters to Egyptian citizens. Egyptian gas production has increased by 31 percent on last year, producing 1.3 million gas canisters a day.