Egypt is waiting to repair its bomb-damaged natural gas pipeline to Jordan until security in the Sinai Peninsula improves, the chairman of the state-run Egyptian Natural Gas Holding Co., or EGAS, said Wednesday.
Egypt
is
waiting to repair its bomb-damaged natural gas pipeline to
Jordan
until
security in the
Sinai Peninsula
improves, the chairman of the state-run Egyptian Natural Gas Holding Co., or
EGAS, said Wednesday.
No gas has flowed to
Jordan
through the pipeline since unidentified militants attacked it with explosives
in the Sinai town of
El Arish
on
July 7.
"The technical team is ready to start the repair works at any time but we
are waiting until the security situation in the area improves," Taher
Abdel Reheem told Dow Jones Newswires.
"We don't want to start repairing the pipeline if we cannot guarantee the
safety of the team. At the moment security forces are working to secure the
area where the pipeline was attacked," he said.
Mr. Abdel Reheem added that it was difficult to predict when the repairs would
start.
Initial evaluation showed that the explosions, which caused no casualties,
damaged about 12 kilometers of the 36-inch pipeline, through which about 100
million cubic feet of gas a day is transported to Jordanian power plants.
EGAS said in a statement after the attack, which followed militant strikes on a
regional airport and security checkpoints in the
Sinai
Peninsula
, that gas supplies to
Jordan
will
resume within 10 days.
The gas pipeline has been attacked 16 times since early 2011 when an uprising
forced Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to resign.
The latest attack, the first since July last year, comes after the elected
president Mohammed Morsi--who has the support of the Muslim Brotherhood--was
ousted by the country's military after just one year in office.
The Egyptian army has already declared a state of emergency in areas bordering
the
Suez
shipping route after a militant attack on a regional airport triggered fears of
oil disruptions and pushed crude prices higher.
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