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28 July 2003 - The first section of a gas pipeline that will eventually enable Egypt to export gas into Europe was inaugurated Sunday. The sub-sea pipeline from Egypt to Jordan will supply 2.7bn cubic metres of natural gas a year.
The first, completed stage takes the pipeline across 245 km of the Sinai peninsula from the Mediterranean to the Red Sea and then 15 km underwater to the Jordanian port of Aqaba.
The second stage will be a 370 km pipeline from Aqaba to northern Jordan. The third stage, beginning in 2006, will extend pipelines to Syria, Lebanon, and Turkey and later to Europe.
Egypt has potential reserves of 2 trillion cubic meters and hopes to become one of the world's top ten exporters of natural gas in the next four years.
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and King Abdullah of Jordan met in the Egyptian resort city of Taba Sunday, 450 km east of the capital Cairo, near the head of the gulf of Aqaba, for the inauguration ceremony. They then went across the gulf to Aqaba, where they inaugurated a thermal gas station that will be fuelled by the natural gas supplied through the pipeline.
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