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(10 Nov 2022) SYRIA GAS

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Furuqlus - 9 November 2022
1. Various of Syrian Gas Co. facility
2. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Amin Aldagree, director general of the Syrian Gas Company:
"Unfortunately, we have faced many challenges starting with the unjust European and American economic sanctions applied against the Syrian Arab Republic. There were problems with the arrival and transportation of supplies. Then there were also the security issues surrounding the site."
3. Various of previous damage to tanks
4. Pipes
5. Various of liquid gas moving through pipes
6. Handwritten text reading (Arabic/English): "Fuel gas"
7. Liquid gas moving through pipes
8. Old shell in ground
9. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Fadi Ibrahim, head of Syria South Gas plant:
"This unjust siege imposed on us brought us great difficulties whether we are trying to secure the necessary spare parts, chemicals or equipment. Everything that we need in order to do our work was impacted by this unjust siege and our inability to access (materials). But through 100% local expertise, the Syrian working hands and Syrian-made products, we were able to overcome most of these difficulties."
10. Various of workers
11. SOUNDBITE(Arabic) Amin Aldagree, director general of the Syrian Gas Company:
"As a result of the lessons learned during the crisis, we always found backup solutions so that we can keep production running, including using bypass lines to make sure that our gas is being delivered to our clients, the most important ones being the electricity stations."
12. Various of gas plant
LEADIN:
War-torn Syria is increasing gas production, hoping for more electricity to help deal with a shortage.
STORYLINE:
Newly installed turbine compressors at a gas facility in central Syria will lead to a production increase that will help ease the war-torn country’s electricity crisis, officials at the sprawling facility said Wednesday.
Syria’s conflict that has killed hundreds of thousands, displaced half the country’s population of 23 million and caused damage worth tens of billions of dollars has hit hard the country’s oil and gas facilities.
In recent years, intense clashes erupted around gas fields in central Syria mostly between government forces and members of the Islamic state group.
To the east, the country’s largest oil fields are in the hands of U.S.-backed Kurdish-led fighters depriving the government of the resource and its income.
Amin Aldagree, director general of the Syrian Gas Co., said two gas turbine engine compressors have been installed and are functioning while two more will be ready by the end the of year.
He said in the future, two compressors will work and the other two will be on standby.
"We have started feeling the tangible results," Aldagree told The Associated Press, adding that the expected increase will be about 500,000 cubic meters (17.6 million cubic feet) a day.
He said gas will be delivered to customers such as power stations and as gas cylinders for clients.
He said the project is part of a contract with Russia’s Stroytransgaz, an engineering company in the oil and gas industry.
Aldagree said a major problem they have faced over the years is getting spare parts for the machines due to Western sanctions imposed on Syria’s government after the conflict started.
He said recently, Syrian engineers have been able to make spare parts in the country.
The officials did not say by how many hours a day electricity supplies would increase.
The capital Damascus gets an average of between eight and 12 hours per day.

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