{"id":356706,"date":"2025-05-23T15:27:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T12:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sana.sy\/en\/?p=356706"},"modified":"2025-05-23T15:27:00","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T12:27:00","slug":"turkish-energy-minister-our-target-is-to-export-2-billions-cubic-meters-of-natural-gas-to-syria-per-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/?p=356706","title":{"rendered":"Turkish Energy Minister: Our target is to export 2 billions cubic meters of natural gas to Syria per year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ankara, SANA Turkey\u2019s Energy and Natural Resources Minister, Alparslan Bayraktar, announced Friday the completion of a natural gas pipeline connection from the southern Turkish province of Kilis to the Syrian city of Aleppo.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Speaking to Anadolu, Bayraktar said &#8220;We completed the pipeline connection from Kilis to Aleppo as of 21 May and the testing and installation of additional equipment are underway.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He explained that \u2018\u2019the upcoming gas exports would be used to power local electricity generation, boosting output by an estimated 1,200 to 1,300 megawatts potentially doubling Syria&#8217;s current production.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The country plans to begin gas exports in June, &#8220;That natural gas will be turned into electricity in the power plants in Syria and will be used to meet the electricity needs of the people here.&#8221; Bayraktar added.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The completion of the final testing and equipment installation are underway, with natural gas exports to Syria expected to begin within weeks.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Khaega\/Mazen Eyon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ankara, SANA Turkey\u2019s Energy and Natural Resources Minister, Alparslan Bayraktar, announced Friday the completion of a natural gas pipeline connection from the southern Turkish province of Kilis to the Syrian city of Aleppo. Speaking to Anadolu, Bayraktar said &#8220;We completed the pipeline connection from Kilis to Aleppo as of 21 May and the testing and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":356707,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6987,23,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-356706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-latest-news","category-news-bar","category-syria-and-the-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356706"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=356706"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":356708,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356706\/revisions\/356708"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/356707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=356706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=356706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=356706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}