This first compressor station for the East Gas Co will be built on the existing 36-in diameter, 258.5-km long pipeline between Al Arish and Aqaba in Jordan (243.5km of which are onshore from Al Arish to Taba, and 15km of which hare offshore in the Gulf of Aqaba) to increase the pipeline's capacity from 7m cum/d to 33m cum/d.