Lebanon to start receiving Egypt natural gas this quarter – presidency

Natural gas from Egypt is expected to start flowing to Lebanon during this quarter via a repaired pipeline crossing Jordan and Syria, according to a Lebanese presidency statement released last week.

The governments of Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, and Jordan agreed during a meeting in Amman in September 2021 on a crisis relief roadmap as part of a U.S.-backed effort to address Lebanon’s power shortages using Egyptian gas via an Arab pipeline established some 20 years ago.

The power crisis has been deepened as supplies of imported fuel have dried up, representing a part of a wider financial crisis that has sunk the Lebanese currency by 90 percent since 2019.