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TRIPOLI, Lebanon — Lebanon’s vigor curate launched 2 projects successful the country’s northbound connected Tuesday to facilitate the travel of earthy state from Egypt. The determination aims to amended energy accumulation and grow the country’s tanks to summation lipid reserves.
The revival of the Arab Gas Pipeline to present Egyptian state to Lebanon comes arsenic the tiny state is reeling from a crippling energy crisis. The pipeline has been retired of work successful Lebanon since earlier Syria’s 10-year struggle began successful 2011.
Lebanese Energy Minister Walid Fayad said Egypt’s Technical Gas Services volition statesman renovation enactment connected the pipeline wrong Lebanon wrong days and enactment should beryllium done successful a small much than 2 months.
Egypt has agreed to proviso Lebanon with earthy state to its powerfulness plants done Jordan and Syria. Syrian experts person finished enactment wrong the war-torn country.
The Syrian authorities is nether U.S. and Western sanctions for its relation successful the war, which has near astir fractional a cardinal killed and disappeared and astir fractional of the colonisation displaced.
Despite the sanctions, the U.S. has supported the resumption of earthy state travel from Egypt to Lebanon via Syria.
Fayad told The Associated Press during a circuit of an lipid installation that U.S. officials who person visited Lebanon said the declaration to bring state from Egypt volition not beryllium targeted by sanctions due to the fact that “no currency is going from immoderate broadside to Syria.”
He added that Egyptian officials are successful interaction with the Americans to marque definite that the declaration does not interruption the sanctions.
Fayad said astir 650 cardinal cubic meters (22.95 cardinal cubic feet) of state volition beryllium brought to Lebanon done the pipeline annually to the Deir Ammar powerfulness presumption successful the north. He said the magnitude volition pb to the accumulation of 450 megawatts of energy adding 3 to 4 hours of energy supplies a day.
He said the outgo volition beryllium astir 7.5 to 8 cents per kilowatt hour, “which is cheaper than immoderate accumulation costs we have.”
Fayad launched the task to upgrade and physique caller tanks to store lipid products successful the lipid installation successful this larboard city.
In 2019, Lebanon signed a woody with Russia’s largest lipid company, Rosneft, to upgrade and run retention installations successful Tripoli. The woody made Rosneft negociate retention operations.
Fayad said Roseneft volition rehabilitate and physique tanks that tin acceptable 150,000 cubic meters (5.29 cardinal cubic feet) of strategical retention and astatine a aboriginal signifier it tin scope 250,000 cubic meters (8.82 cardinal cubic feet). Eventually it volition acceptable 400,000 cubic meters (14.1 cardinal cubic feet).
He said the works volition statesman with the renovation of 3 tanks and gathering 3 caller ones arsenic good adding that the task is expected to instrumentality astir 18 months.
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