Momentum For Iraqi Gas Exports Building

摘要

Efforts to better utilize and potentially export Iraqi gas — both from the Akkas gas field near the Syrian border via the Arab Gas Pipeline, now flowing Egyptian gas, and from the Kurdistan region — look to be gaining momentum (WGI Feb.27,p5). Syria, which expects to begin importing Egyptian gas this week, is eyeing additional volumes from Iraq within 18 months, according to plans outlined by Syrian Oil Minister Sufian Allaw at a news conference in Damascus Monday. Peak flows through the Arab Gas Pipeline, which runs from El-Arish in Egypt via Jordan to Deir Ali in Syria, are expected to reach 2 billion cubic meters per year (195 million cubic feet per day).