The Arab Gas Pipeline, which started in 2001, connects Egypt, Syria, Jordan and Lebanon transporting and marketing natural gas through these countries up to the border of Turkey.
The pipelines extend for 1200 km from Al-Arish in Egypt through Jordan and Syria to the Turkish borders. In February 2008 a crucial construction phase ended with the pipeline’s extension to Syria’s Deir Ali power plant south of Damascus and on July 10th 2008 Egypt started transmitting 2.5 million cubic meters of natural gas daily to Syria. The last phase is to link up the pipe to Lebanon and Turkey with the objective to eventually link up via the proposed Nabucco Pipeline to a teeming continent of energy-hungry Europeans