Syria begins work on the Arab Gas Pipeline stretch that would connect Jordan's border to Turkey's

Syria has started building the stretch of the Arab Gas Pipeline that would link the Jordanian border to the Turkish one. The Syrian Petroleum Company is laying an 186 km, 36-inch section that will help complete a c. 566 km run between the two borders, QNA reports. The section comes with c. 8 mn cbm of operational gas storage and a compressor station that can move 11 mn cbm/d at first, expandable to c. 22 mn cbm/d.

Demand on the line is already growing: Jordan recently approved plans to move imported gas from Aqaba through the Arab Gas Pipeline via Syria to Lebanon for power generation. Egypt has also been sending c. 50 mmcf/d to each of Syria and Lebanon this year, using LNG regasified at Aqaba. The new section gives those flows more room and more flexibility as they grow.