In the meantime iran, which owns the other smaller, share of the persian gulf gas field, decided to lodge its own rival plan for a $10 billion pipeline to europe via iraq and syria and then under. The handling of sour gas is particularly complex due to its corrosive and toxic properties, which require advanced materials and technologies to ensure safety and durability. Despite these obstacles, the proposal highlighted the competing visions for syria’s role in regional energy infrastructure.
Iran’s only significant gas exports are by pipeline to turkey Syria also trained iranians in missile technology and provided iran with scud b missiles between 1986 and 1988 Other major gas pipeline projects appear to floundering
This strategic project connects the iranian gas condensate field in the southern part of iran with europe via iraq, syria and lebanon. More than a year ago, a $10 billion pipelineistan deal was clinched between iran, iraq and syria for a natural gas pipeline to be built by 2016 from iran’s giant south pars field, traversing. The original pipeline, dating back to the 1950s, that once transported iraqi oil to syria and then into europe stretched for 850 kilometres linking the kirkuk region with syria’s port of banias. Igat10 the pipeline runs from khuzestan and bushehr provinces in the south of iran to the northern part of the country.it has an estimated transport capacity of 2,472.03 million cubic feet per day (70,000 million cubic centimeter), with a length of 393 miles / 632 km
[20] during the 2003 invasion of iraq, the pipeline was damaged by u.s [21] on 17 december 2007, syria and iraq agreed to rehabilitate the pipeline. Potential gas pipelines through syria to europe Russia’s intervention in syria was less about “conflict resolution” and more about strategic disruption
This strategy included utilizing the 6,300 kilometers of gas and oil pipelines crossing syria and leveraging the arab gas pipeline (agp).