Egyptian pipeline attacks halts gas to Israel & Jordan
IRJ – November 10 –Two explosions have hit an Egyptian pipeline, closing down gas supplies to Israel and Jordan in the seventh militant attack this year.
The first explosion hit an area 40 kilometres west of El-Arish in the north of the Sinai Peninsula, and the second near a pumping station in the same sector.
A spokesperson for said witnesses saw the blaze after the explosions and then several armed men heading towards the pipeline.
The pipeline carries gas through Sinai and then on to Jordan and Israel, and covers 80 per cent of Jordan’s electricity production demand of 6.8 million cubic metres a day.
Maya Berdugo, spokeswoman for the infrastructure ministry in Israel, said: “Israel is making up for the shortage caused by this new attack on the Egyptian gas pipeline by drawing more from Yam Tethys.”
Yam Tethys is an offshore reserve which is allegedly diminishing at a much faster rate than predicted.
Military forces and the police have launched an operation in the peninsula to deracinate Islamist militants they believe to be behind these attacks on the pipeline.
---By Laura Hedges, editorial assistant
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