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Thanks to the official inauguration of the Turkish pipeline, the Azerbai gas flower flows into Syria on Saturday.
The ceremony of the inauguration of the pipeline, which connects Kilis from Aleppo, took place in the Turkish border, in a family of a kilometer from the Turkish-Syrian border.
This was attended by the Minister of Energy and Natural Resources of Turkey, the Alplan Bayractar, President of the Cataru Development Fund Fahad Hamad Al-Sulait, the Syrian Minister of Energy of Mohammed al-Bashira and the Minister of Economics of Azerbaijan.
In his first speech, the Turkish Minister of Energy said that with an export of 2 billion cubic meters of natural gas per year, the supply of electricity to the Syrian households and enterprises will increase from 3-4 hours a day to 10 hours a day.
At the same time, referring to electricity, which is already exported by Turkey to Syria out of 8 different points, Alikarslan Bayractar said that the export capacity will increase by 25% at the first stage, and will subsequently be more than doubled.
“With new connections, the capacity will reach 860 megavatts, and 1.6 million households in Syria will have power from electricity,” he said, ““ accelerating the return ”of the Syrians to Turkey, as he noted.
At the same time, the Turkish Minister of Headquarters emphasized that the work is underway to reopen the BireCik-Halepi 500 megavatt power line to again open, which was used in the past.
He also announced the signing of an agreement with the state company SOCAR provided by natural gas from Azerbaijan.
On July 30, the Alplan Bayractar announced that Türkiye will work with Azerbaijan and Qatar for gas export to Syria.
The construction of the Kilia – Aleppo gas pipeline, which has a gas transfer of 6 million cubic meters per day, was completed on May 21.
Energy cooperation
Immediately after raising the sanctions of the EU and the USA, it was announced in May that the strategic cooperation agreement was signed with $ 7 billion (about 284 billion TLS) between Kalyon Holding and Cengiz Holding, UCC from Qatar, Power International.
In accordance with the agreement, the consortium will build refueling stations with natural gas, 4000 megavatts in the areas of Treyfi, Zeyzun, Deir EZ-Zor and Miharde, as well as the solar station of 1000 Megavatts in the vidian al-Rabi region and will work about 2 years later. Natural gas power plants will be completed for three years.
The purpose of the consortium is to ensure the energy safety of Syria, the viability of the environment and regional development.
Energy supply during the civil war
Syria has been faced with serious shortcomings in the energy supply since the beginning of the 12 -year civil war.
The war closed more than 50% of the country’s electricity network, reducing the ability to produce electricity from 8500 megavatts to 3500 megavatts. According to estimates, the main reason for this is serious damage to power plants in the areas of Mhard, Aleppo and Zayzun.
Before the Civil War, in 2011, Syria produced and exported 400,000 barrels of oil per day. However, now it can produce only 20,000 barrels and depends on imports. The gas sector, which only grew up in 2011, almost does not exist today.