On August 2, Turkey officially launched the Turkish-Syrian gas pipeline with a daily capacity of 6 million cubic meters. This pipeline will be used for the transportation of Azerbaijani gas to Syria, reports Baltimore Chronicle, citing the Turkish television channel NTV.
In the first phase of the project, Syria will receive up to 2 billion cubic meters of gas annually, which will power Syrian power plants with a total capacity of around 1200 MW. It is expected that this will provide electricity to 5 million households and, as hoped by Turkey, contribute significantly to the normalization of life in Syria after the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime.
The opening ceremony of the gas pipeline, which took place in the Turkish city of Kilis, was attended by high-ranking officials, including Syria’s Energy Minister Mohammad al-Bashir, Turkey’s Energy Minister Alparslan Bayraktar, Azerbaijan’s Minister of Economy Mikayil Jabbarov, and the head of the Qatar Development Fund Fahad Hamad al-Sulayti.
Earlier we wrote that Donald Trump lifts U.S. sanctions against Syria.
