Egypt reduced its gas exports to Syria recently, to the extent of 800 or 900 thousand cubic meters per day after it was imported 2.5 million cubic meters per day through the Arab gas pipeline that runs from Jordan.

Therefore, Syria’s imports have fallen from Egyptian natural gas to 1.2 million cubic meters per day.
Ministry of Oil and Gas signed a supply agreement to Syria in the seventh month in 2007, where the flow of Egyptian gas through the Arab oil pipeline to Syria for the first time.

That imply the sale of Egyptian gas to Syria and providing Syria with limited quantities of natural gas ranging from 2.5 million cubic meters a day to reach 6 million cubic meters per day in 2013.

sources said that the Egyptian step is may be due to the shortage of electric power generation and increased demand that Egypt is suffering of which has led to reducing the amount of Egyptian gas to Syria.

Syria’s production of gas, has reached more than 28 million cubic meters per day are supplied with the Ministry of Electricity to 20 million cubic meters, for use in power plants, which contributes to the reduction of import of fuel.

A source of the Egyptian oil official denied recent press reports, according to Health Government’s intention to reduce the amounts of exporting Egyptian gas to the outside in order to meet the needs of the lack of the internal market, and face the crisis of power outages.

The source pointed out that the reduction of time and increase the quantities of gas exported under the program is provided in the contracts, and that Egypt is committed to the implementation of those contracts.

It should be noted that Egypt has the third largest reserves of natural gas in Africa after Algeria and Nigeria, which is estimated at 1.89 trillion cubic meters.

Egypt is suffering frequent power outages caused damage to economic sectors.