Authoritative sources revealed that the test pumping gas from the network into Lebanon will begin tomorrow, after the semi-finished of technical works to connect the Lebanese gas network to Syrian one.

The sources said that the injection of the gas pipeline between Homs and Tripoli will begin tomorrow morning to enable technical teams to clean the line and of testing and control devices.
sources who preferred anonymity Indicated that Egypt will increase the quantities that injected in the Arab gas pipeline network to be able to pass the Syria agreed quantities to Lebanon.
The sources affirmed that Syria would satisfy the fees agreed upon in full, and denied that such symbolic fees confirmed «it is a business».

The sources expected that Lebanon imports in the first phase of 30 million cubic feet of gas after the end of the experiments to be conducted by the operating company contracted by the Lebanese side to reach the quantities exported to Lebanon, the end of the first year to 60 million cubic feet, verify Syria transit revenues monthly cost of about one million dollars.

The source believes that the agreement allows the sale of Egyptian gas to Lebanon, the Syrian gas network with the opportunity to receive their full quota of signed agreements.
The Egyptian Minister of Petroleum Sameh Fahmi said that Lebanon will recognize the Egyptian natural gas through the Arab gas pipeline this month, and the gas would reach to Lebanon via Syria on a trial basis in the eighth of September, and begin pumping commercial quantities in the fifteenth.
He said during a visit to Lebanon recently to discuss the technical details on the pipeline that “the agreement provides for the arrival of Egyptian gas to the Jordanian border and then to the Syrian border and sold to Syria for Syrian gas will be received in northern Lebanon, are purchased from the Egyptian side and sell it to the Lebanese side.”

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