RUSSIAN pipeline contractor Stroytransgaz, partly owned by Gazprom, is to construct a gas pipeline from Syria to Turkey that may help supply has to Europe. Stroytransgaz has signed an accord with state-owned Syrian Gas for the new pipeline which will link Aleppo, in northern Syria, and the Turkish border, Syrian Oil Minister Sufian al-Alao said.
Syria began receiving gas from Egypt last year through a pipe that crosses Jordan, and plans to import gas from Iraq's Akkas field, which is close to the border, by 2010.Stroytransgaz, which built the Syrian section of the pipeline from Egypt, will now construct the 62-km extension in 18 months, at a cost of around $71.2 mllion, Mr Alao said. Last October, Cristobal Burgos-Alonso, an adviser at the European Union's Energy Directorate, said Iraq and Egypt might provide gas for Nabucco, the pipeline project to supply Europe through Turkey, by-passing Russia.
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