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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
The price for coal delivered into Amsterdam-Rotterdam-Antwerp
Impermeable layer in which groundwater movement is slow, such as clay or shale
Permeable materials that carries water (e.g. sandstone, limestone). An old water reservoir that has been conditioned to hold and store natural gas. See also aquifer as gas storage
Components of the electricity tariff that are approved by the regulator. The electricity regulator has the power to accept (e.g. fuel costs) or reject (possibly pensions) certain components within the final calculation of the approved electricity tariff
Such as when a site is appropriate to construct an LNG terminal on
The phase of petroleum operations that immediately follows successful exploratory drilling. At this stage, appraisal wells are drilled to further define the resources of the structure. During appraisal, delineation wells might be drilled to determine the size of the oil or gas field and how to develop it most efficiently. When an appraisal well is carried out its location is usually sited to test another part of the structure where the operator expects there to be similar hydrocarbon bearing sands, at a location several kilometers away from the first exploration well, and probably closer to the predicted gas-water contact, in order to see if they can pin down where the edges of the reservoir are in order to best estimate the size thereof. In addition, if the appraisal well shows thicker sands, then this is a further positive indication of the quantity of hydrocarbons, if they come in thinner then potentially there could be less gas present then estimated after the exploration well and after the initial logging and flow rate tests. The greater the number of wells placed the higher the accuracy
A license given by the licensing authorities to drill an appraisal well