Arab Gas Pipeline
natural gas pipeline
The Arab Gas Pipeline is a natural gas pipeline in the Middle East. It originates near Arish in the Sinai Peninsula and was built to export Egyptian natural gas to Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon, with branch underwater and overland pipelines to and from Israel. It has a total length of 1,200 kilometres (750 mi), constructed at a cost of US$1.2 billion.
History
The pipeline has been used intermittently since its inauguration. Egyptian gas exports were reduced dramatically in 2011 – initially due to sabotage, mostly to its feeder pipeline in Sinai, followed by natural gas shortages in Egypt which forced it to discontinue gas exports by the mid-2010s. Sections of the pipeline continued to operate in Jordan to facilitate domestic transport of gas.
From 2015 to 2018, the pipeline was reversed to flow gas from Jordan to Egypt, fed by imported LNG through Jordan's Aqaba LNG reception terminal. From 2018, a recovery in Egyptian gas production enabled gas to flow to Jordan through the link.
In 2020, the pipeline began distributing gas from Israel inside Jordan. The underwater branch to Israel was reversed to allow gas from Israel to flow to Egypt.
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