Lebanon’s Energy and Water Minister Gebran Bassil has unveiled a draft project to build a gas pipeline running north to south along the coast of Lebanon, following the completion of the project’s feasibility study.
The pipeline, which would link power stations along Lebanon’s coast with a proposed LNG terminal, will be constructed as part of an energy strategy announced by Mr Bassil in 2010.
The project would involve the construction of a 174 km, 36 inch diameter pipeline that would stretch from the Deir Ammar power station in Northern Lebanon to the Southern city of Tyre.
In 2010 senior Lebanon Energy Ministry official Raymond Ghajar said that Lebanon was planning to have a working LNG terminal by 2012 and was also considering importing LNG from Qatar.
The ministry offered tenders in November 2010 for the construction of the pipeline, which is expected to take 28 months to be completed.
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Mr Bassil said that the pipeline still requires the approval of the Lebanese Cabinet.
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