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Lebanon to start receiving Egyptian gas mid-September
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02 September 2009
BEIRUT: Lebanon will finally receive the long-awaited Egyptian gas to run the gas-fired Beddawi plant in the middle of this month, said the energy ministers of Lebanon and Egypt. Visiting Egyptian Oil Minister Sameh Fahmi, who was speaking at a press conference with his Lebanese counterpart Alain Tabourian, said that gas will cross Jordan and Syria before reaching Lebanon.
The minister attributed delays in delivering the gas to technical problems but said the problems had been solved.
Egypt will conduct a test on September 8 to ensure that everything is in order.
Neither Lebanon nor Egypt disclosed the actual cost of gas to Beddawi.
In principle, Egypt will supply Lebanon with 30 million cubic feet of gas and this amount will operate two turbines at Beddawi plant.
The plant was originally built in 1996 to run on gas but officials at the Energy MinistryEnergy Ministry
failed to build proper networks and pipelines between the plant and neighboring countries.
failed to build proper networks and pipelines between the plant and neighboring countries. Tabourian told reporters that the Egyptian gas will not boost production but would instead reduce the cost of energy bill.
Experts say natural gas is 30 percent cheaper than fuel oil and more environmentally friendly.
“We are running our plants at full capacity and we can’t provide electricity to all of Lebanon at the same time. We need an additional 800 MW to meet growing demand,” Tabourian said.
He added that since the end of the Civil War, Lebanon has spent $750 million on power plants and another $650 million on the power lines and yet the country is still not able to produce sufficient electricity.
The minister said that he intended to have another meeting with caretaker Prime Minister Fouad Siniora in one week to discuss possible ways to boost the production of electricity. – The Daily Star
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