The Assad regime announces the readiness of the Arab gas pipeline inside Syria

 The Minister of Oil and Mineral Resources in the government of the Assad regime, Bassam Tohme, announced that the Arab Gas Pipeline is ready inside Syria to transport Egyptian gas to Lebanon.

Tohme said in a statement to the regime’s news agency “SANA” on Saturday that the regime’s government will obtain quantities of gas in exchange for its passage through its territory in accordance with the signed agreements, noting that this agreement “will benefit the electricity generation operations.”

He added that the gas pipeline was under maintenance, as it is part of the internal gas network, after it was subjected to what he described as “dozens of terrorist attacks and the theft of the equipment of the three CT valve stations from the Jordanian border,” as he claimed.

The length of the Arab gas pipeline, according to Minister Tohme, is 320 km from the Jordanian border to al-Rayyan in central Syria, with a diameter of 36 inches and a capacity to transport 10 billion cubic meters annually.

He also indicated that the gas transport agreement signed between the Syrian Gas Company and the Egyptian Natural Gas Holding Authority was to pay the fees for transporting Egyptian gas through Syrian territory to Lebanon, either in cash or equivalent quantities of gas, and this was what was happening, and indicated that the gas network was It has been operating since 2009 and stopped working at the beginning of 2012 due to the decrease in the quantities of gas produced in Egypt.

He stressed that the regime’s government will benefit from reactivating the gas pipeline by obtaining quantities of the material to support electric power generation, indicating that the Lebanese side requested 600 million cubic meters of gas per year, an average of 1.6 million cubic meters per day.

The energy ministers of Egypt, Syria, Lebanon and Jordan had previously agreed on a road map to supply Lebanon with electricity and natural gas, to solve a major energy crisis that it has been suffering from for months.